Strong Local Economies Grants Descriptions
Manufacturing Renaissance
Chicago, IL | $250,000 (24 months)
To expand the national network of Manufacturing Renaissance Councils, and to advance development of the Austin Manufacturing Innovation Park.
Category: Equitable Economic Development
Metropolitan Economic Development Association
Minneapolis, MN | $250,000 (24 months)
To support business development services aimed at assisting minority-owned businesses achieve scale through financing, procurement opportunities, and acquisitions assistance.
Category: Business Development & Acceleration
Minnesota Neighborhoods Organizing for Change
Minneapolis, MN | $250,000 (24 months)
To support a coalition of community groups to improve the quality of jobs in low-wage sectors through policy advocacy, public education, community organizing and worker organizing.
Category: Job Quality & Career Pathways
National Community Reinvestment Coalition
Washington, DC | $80,000
To support a federal policy development education and policy advocacy campaign that will result in improvements to small business loan data, assisting access to credit for traditionally underserved small businesses.
Category: Business Development & Acceleration
National Domestic Workers Alliance
New York, NY | $400,000 (24 months)
To improve job quality in the domestic work and care industries through civic engagement and education, policy solutions, social innovation and other strategies.
Category: Job Quality & Career Pathways
National People's Action
Chicago, IL | $125,000
To improve job quality through advocating for policies such as raising the minimum wage at the federal and state levels.
Category: Job Quality & Career Pathways
Neighborhood Funders Group
Oakland, CA | $12,500
To support key programmatic components the organization’s 2013 National Convening in Jackson, MS, including general support for the convening.
Category: Job Quality & Career Pathways
Neighborhood Story Project
New Orleans, LA | $120,000 (36 months)
To support the creation of an equitable economic model for the publishing of ethnographic stories of art, music, ritual, and activism in New Orleans. Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Thriving Cultures Program.
Category: Others
NewCorp, Inc.
New Orleans, LA | $175,000 (24 months)
Supports technical and financial assistance efforts for small and minority businesses in the New Orleans region.
Category: Business Development & Acceleration
Next City
Philadelphia, PA | $300,000 (36 months)
To support a sustained dialogue about equitable economic development strategies through a daily online column, a fellowship for writers of color, and added editorial capacity.
Category: Equitable Economic Development