Strong Local Economies Grants Descriptions
Opportunity Finance Network
Philadelphia, PA | $300,000 (24 months)
To support the growth of Community Development Financial Institutions providing small business financing, including capital for minority businesses, and to develop Opportunity Finance Network's thought leadership around job quality.
Category: Business Development & Acceleration
Pacific Community Ventures, Inc.
San Francisco, CA | $100,000
To support the development and launch the Accelerating Impact Investing Initiative - which seeks to drive capital for investment in enterprises that anchor economic opportunity in underserved areas.
Category: Business Development & Acceleration
Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute, Inc.
Bronx, NY | $125,000
To support the 'Raise the Floor, and Build the Ladders' initiative, improving the quality of entry-level direct-care jobs and strengthening opportunities for career advancement.
Category: Job Quality & Career Pathways
PICO National Network
Oakland, CA | $125,000
To secure better wages, benefits, and increased access to good jobs - for low to moderate wage workers.
Category: Job Quality & Career Pathways
PolicyLink
Oakland, CA | $300,000 (24 months)
General operating support as PolicyLink launches a campaign to advance a new economic model that is driven by equity, opportunity and fairness.
Category: Equitable Economic Development
Pratt Institute
Brooklyn, NY | $400,000 (36 months)
Continued support for the growth of the Urban Manufacturing Alliance and the launch of an initiative designed to generate inclusive, equitable economic growth and quality manufacturing jobs.
Category: Equitable Economic Development
Race Forward
New York, NY | $45,000
To support the use of a racial justice lens to engage in ongoing reporting on economic justice issues, and the publication of two investigative articles on the topic.
Category: Equitable Economic Development
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United
New York, NY | $100,000
Support for a national research and policy agenda focused on improving job quality, and to support the growth of an alternative restaurant trade association.
Category: Job Quality & Career Pathways
Rising Tide Capital
Jersey City, NJ | $30,000
To support an ongoing micro-enterprise development program which provides high quality business education to low-income entrepreneurs; and for facilitation of the Local Economy Working group.
Category: Business Development & Acceleration
Saint Paul Foundation
Saint Paul, MN | $225,000 (36 months)
To support the final three years of the Central Corridor Funders Collaborative, an effort to leverage light rail development to create places of opportunity, which will focus on business development and job access.
Category: Others