Strong Local Economies Grants Descriptions
Center for Popular Democracy
Brooklyn, NY | $15,000
To support Local Progress' 2013 Fall Convening.
Category: Equitable Economic Development
Center for Popular Democracy
Brooklyn, NY | $45,000
To support the merger of the Center for Popular Democracy and the Leadership Center for the Common Good and the inaugural core partner meeting in June 2014.
Category: Job Quality & Career Pathways
Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber of Commerce Foundation
Cincinnati, OH | $250,000 (24 months)
Program support for the Chamber's Minority Business Accelerator to deliver specialized technical services aimed at growing and strengthening high growth minority firms in the Cincinnati region.
Category: Business Development & Acceleration
Cleveland Citywide Development Corporation
Cleveland, OH | $500
To pay for training for City Economic Development staff.
Category: Others
Common Counsel Foundation
Oakland, CA | $49,000
To support RoadMap's capacity building work with Brightline Defense Project and MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change
Category: Job Quality & Career Pathways
Community Catalyst
Boston, MA | $100,000
To build tools and strategies to encourage nonprofit hospitals and community groups to work together towards economic development.
Category: Equitable Economic Development
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan
Detroit, MI | $400,000 (24 months)
To support the creation of an inclusive regional economy by leveraging Detroit's innovation, creative and entrepreneurial drive, to strengthen an economy in which opportunity and prosperity are available for all.
Category: Equitable Economic Development
Community Labor United
Boston, MA | $25,000
To support the development of a campaign to create a new legal, conceptual, and organizing framework to confront the growth of 'bad jobs' through the use of subcontracting.
Category: Job Quality & Career Pathways
Community LIFT
Memphis, TN | $15,000
To support Community LIFT's capacity to raise funds for its operational expenses, as part of a fundraising challenge included in a Kresge Foundation grant .
Category: Business Development & Acceleration
Community LIFT
Memphis, TN | $400,000 (36 months)
Adapting state and city economic development policy incentives to neighborhood context in order to support the acceleration and relocation of businesses to depressed neighborhoods and increase job creation.
Category: Business Development & Acceleration