Strong Local Economies

Total: $10,115,500

National Housing Trust

  • Washington, DC
  • $150,000 (2 years)

To advance Federal, state, and local policies that create equitable, sustainable communities and safeguard affordable, transit-accessible homes.
Category: Connecting People to Economic Opportunity

Neighborhood Progress

  • Cleveland, OH
  • $200,000

Support to advance sustainable development, sustainable land reuse, green job development, and policy work to stimulate reinvestment in older industrial cities.
Category: Community Revitalization-Weak Market Cities (under previous guidelines)

National Skills Coalition

  • Washington, DC
  • $300,000 (3 years)

To enhance the organization's capacity to reform Federal and state workforce development policies and promote their alignment with industry- targeted sectors and build "middle-skill" job pathways for lowincome working adults.
Category: Creating Economic Opportunity

The New York Community Trust

  • New York, NY
  • $100,000

To continue supporting the One Region Funders' Group, a funder collaborative supporting strategic grantmaking and joint learning to advance transportation reform issues and TCD in the Tri-State region of Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey and at the Federal level. Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Sustainable Environments Program.
Category: Community Revitalization-Strong Market Cities (under previous guidelines)

Nonprofit Housing Association of Northern California

  • San Francisco, CA
  • $50,000

To continue core work of assembling the elements needed to build affordable housing: funding, policy, and land, and building the capacity of its members.
Category: Community Revitalization- Strong Market Cities (under previous guidelines)

Pontchartrain Park Community Development Corporation

  • New Orleans, LA
  • $50,000

General operating support to the Pontchartrain Park CDC, which is revitalizing an historic, middle-class African American neighborhood based on market/asset analysis.
Category: Community Revitalization- Weak Market Cities (under previous guidelines)

Nonprofit Knowledge Works

  • New Orleans, LA
  • $100,000

To empower New Orleanians with facts and thoughtful analysis to help them form a common understanding of New Orleans' progress and future and to communicate that to the nation on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Category: Creating Economic Opportunity

Reconnecting America

  • Oakland, CA
  • $425,000 (2 years)

For general support to enable Reconnecting America to implement strategies that will amplify its efforts to foster equitable and sustainable transit-oriented development throughout the country. Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Sustainable Environments Program.
Category: Connecting People to Economic Opportunity

Partnership for Working Families

  • Denver, CO
  • $275,000 (3 years)

To connect innovative local advocacy and organizing strategies to national policy, emphasizing the creation of quality jobs and career pathways in the growing green economy, like construction and transportation. Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Sustainable Environments Program.
Category: Creating Economic Opportunity

Right to the City Alliance

  • Brooklyn, NY
  • $50,000

General support for a national alliance of community groups and resource allies, calling for more inclusive economic recovery programs at the regional and national levels that support low-income communities. Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Effective Citizenry Program.
Category: Community Revitalization-Strong Market Cities (under previous guidelines)

Pittsburgh Partnership for Neighborhood Development

  • Pittsburgh, PA
  • $300,000 (2 years)

To create vibrant communities through comprehensive community development in multi-neighborhood target areas; to implement new collaborative efforts in four Champion Neighborhoods, resulting in greater integration and effectiveness of service delivery.
Category: Community Revitalization-Weak Market Cities (under previous guidelines)

Smart Growth America

  • Washington, DC
  • $100,000

To coordinate a multi-state smart growth campaign for the adoption of transit funding and transit-oriented development policy. Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Sustainable Environments Program.
Category: Connecting People to Economic Opportunity

Urban Agenda

  • New York, NY
  • $80,000 (2 years)

To implement the NYC Green Collar Jobs Roundtable Campaign's recommendations to grow an inclusive green economy and diversify the approach to job creation and workforce development. Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Sustainable Environments Program.
Category: Creating Economic Opportunity

The Urban Institute

  • Washington, DC
  • $200,000

To support a rapid response research mechanism to address some of the nation's most pressing housing and urban policy issues to educate and inform Federal strategies.
Category: Community Revitalization- Strengthening the Field (under previous guidelines)

Sweet Home New Orleans

  • New Orleans, LA
  • $70,000

To ensure New Orleans' musicians and cultural tradition bearers receive earned income from performances and benefit from professional development, preserving New Orleans rich cultural heritage and contributing to the city's cultural economy. Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Thriving Cultures Program.
Category: Creating Economic Opportunity

Urban Strategies Council

  • Oakland, CA
  • $150,000 (2 years)

To organize, train, and assist Bayview/Hunters Point residents to lead the implementation of a Core Community Benefits Agreement for the Shipyard/Candlestick redevelopment project.
Category: Creating Economic Opportunity

Transnational Institute for Grassroots Research and Action

  • Oakland, CA
  • $25,000

To develop TIGRA's Transnational Reinvestment Systems-a suite of internet-based applications that engages remitters, organizations, and TIGRA-accredited companies in a system of generating and monitoring reinvestments to transnational communities. Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Effective Citizenry Program.

Westside Industrial Retention and Expansion Network

  • Cleveland, OH
  • $100,000

To strengthen US manufacturing and communities, connect firms to workforce development services and growing markets, help urban residents gain access to good careers, and develop wind manufacturing policies. Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Sustainable Environments Program.
Category: Creating Economic Opportunity