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Governance Analysis: How 10 Participatory Grant making Initiatives and Funder Collaboratives Work

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2020

Level City or Town, County, State

State(s) All States

Source Onside Partners

Policy Areas Community Development, Finance & Procurement

Participatory grantmaking is a form of grantmaking that shifts decisions about strategy, criteria, and funding either partially or entirely to non-funders who represent the field that funders aim to serve. Governance structures codify the rules, norms, and relationships around decision-making...

Grants

2007 San Jose Ordinance 27980 Increasing Local Contract Authority

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2007

Level City or Town

State(s) California

Source San Jose City Council

Policy Areas Finance & Procurement

This ordinance increases the amount of funding city departments can appropriate in contract agreements and expands departmental authority over the scope and type of purchases they are permitted to make....

Invest in Water Infrastructure

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level City or Town, National

State(s) All States

Source National League Of Cities

Policy Areas Environment & Natural Resources

Local governments provide over 95% of the total funding for U.S. water infrastructure. To meet the nation’s growing water infrastructure needs, address the impacts of climate change on water quality and availability, and to ensure equity and affordability for low- and fixed-income...

Expanding Early Childhood Education: How States and Districts Can Use Federal Recovery Funds Strategically

Type Fact Sheet or Infographic

Year 2021

Level Other Boards and Agencies, School District, State

State(s) All States

Source Learning Policy Institute

Policy Areas Children & Families, Education

States and School Districts should take advantage of federal recovery funds, particularly focusing their use of resources towards the expansion and improvement of early childhood education (ECE). This factsheet highlights how these funds can be used for various ECE initiatives, including...

Low-Barrier Housing Grant Program for Domestic Abuse Survivors Model Ordinance

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2022

Level City or Town

State(s) New York

Source New York City Council

Policy Areas Housing

This bill would require the Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence (ENDGBV), in consultation with the Department of Social Services (DSS) and community-based organizations, to establish a program to provide survivors of domestic and gender-based violence with a low-barrier...

Lean Financing: Alternatives to Institutional Capital

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2021

Level City or Town, Other Boards and Agencies

State(s) All States

Source The Project For Lean Urbanism

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Community Development

Financing Lean Development requires non-institutional sources of capital. This paper focuses on project equity, specifically from those sources. Lean Development is coming of age, but it has significant hurdles to realizing its potential, and financing is among the more difficult...

A Good Deal for Mississippi? A Report on Taxpayer Assistance to Nissan in Canton, Mississippi

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2013

Level County, County

State(s) Mississippi

Source Good Jobs First

Policy Areas Children & Families, Civil Rights

Over the past decade Nissan has created thousands of manufacturing jobs in Mississippi. While the company has spent considerable amounts of its own money, it has also received large amounts of financial assistance from taxpayers at the local and state levels. This report documents...

Social Equity in California Climate Change Grants: Making the Promise Real

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2019

Level -

State(s) California

Source The Greenlining Institute

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources

Climate change grant programs can provide multiple benefits, including improved air quality, lower electricity costs, improved health outcomes, and green job opportunities. However, these benefits often fail to reach low-income communities of color—even though these communities tend...

Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2009

Level County, City or Town, State

State(s) Pennsylvania

Source The Reinvestment Fund

Policy Areas Food, Economic Justice

The Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative (FFFI) is a statewide financing program designed to attract supermarkets and grocery stores to underserved urban and rural communities (i.e. food deserts). This brief outlines FFFI's, financing structure, results, and special initiatives,...

Job Creation on a Budget: How Regional Industry Clusters Can Add Jobs, Bolster Entrepreneurship, and Spark Innovation

Type Policy Brief or Report

Year 2011

Level State

State(s) All States

Source Brookings-Rockefeller

Policy Areas Economic Justice, Finance & Procurement, Democracy & Governance, Data & Technology

While conventional strategies of tax credits, training programs, and public infrastructure are crucial for economic development, the cultivation of regional industry clusters offers an innovative strategy for job growth and entrepreneurship. This report explains how these industry...

Moline, IL Council Bill/Resolution No. 1024-2024

Type Ordinance or Resolution

Year 2024

Level City or Town

State(s) Illinois

Source -

Policy Areas Community Development, Economic Justice, Housing

Residents in Moline, IL are struggling with inflationary pressures, wage stagnation and compression, and the changing rates of indicators of need. This resolution leveraged home rule to provide qualifying families with improved financial assistance and case management. The Level Up...

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