Grant Highlights
Community Development
The American Assembly, established in 1950 by Dwight D. Eisenhower as an affiliate of Columbia University, is a nonpartisan, public-affairs forum that illuminates important national policy issues and formulates innovative solutions to complex problems. This grant provided funding for the 110th assembly, held in Detroit in April 2011, which focused on strategic responses to the challenges facing cities with population loss.
The American Assembly, established in 1950 by Dwight D. Eisenhower as an affiliate of Columbia University, is a nonpartisan, public-affairs forum that illuminates important national policy issues and formulates innovative solutions to complex problems. This grant provided funding for the 110th assembly, held in Detroit in April 2011, which focused on strategic responses to the challenges facing cities with population loss.
The public-policy think tank anchors the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, which focuses attention on the vital role cities play as engines of economic growth and global competitiveness. Grant support benefits metropolitan areas, including Detroit, through Brookings’ policy analysis and federal-policy recommendations.
Brookings’ Metropolitan Policy Program focuses attention on the vital role cities play as engines of economic growth and global competitiveness. This grant supports a national summit to examine the future of the nation’s automotive communities and discuss innovative public-private partnerships for jumpstarting economic transformation in these areas.
Brookings’ Metropolitan Policy Program focuses attention on the vital role cities play as engines of economic growth and global competitiveness. This three-year grant supports research, policy, and outreach activities that advance the economic transformation of Michigan’s metropolitan areas.
Through 30 years of financing and community-development work, the organization has supported the growth of small and medium businesses and created or retained thousands of jobs. CEI has financed more than 1,200 units of affordable housing and dozens of community facilities for Maine residents. This grant for general operations supports efforts to create income, employment, and ownership opportunities in rural communities.
Through 30 years of financing and community development work, the organization has supported the growth of small and medium businesses, and created or retained thousands of jobs. CEI has financed more than 1,200 units of affordable housing and dozens of community facilities for Maine residents. This program-related investment – those which give nonprofit organizations, including nonprofit banks and community development financial institutions, access to financial capital in the form of low-interest or interest-free loans – supports job creation and finances small-scale enterprises throughout communities in rural Maine.
The nonprofit organization is a national leader in providing affordable housing and offers residents support services such as counseling, job placement, tutoring, and health care. This challenge grant is being used to construct a new LEED-rated headquarters and to renovate a facility to provide apartments for individuals.
The nonprofit corporation provides economic opportunities to north Minneapolis residents through its portfolio of work force, housing, social enterprise, and community development programs. Assisted by this two-year grant, Emerge is renovating a historic library for use as a neighborhood technology, training, and placement hub.
The corporation was founded in 2001 by the Enterprise Center, a minority-business accelerator, to promote minority entrepreneurship and wealth creation through strategic investments, programs, and initiatives in the Walnut Hill neighborhood of West Philadelphia. Funding is being used to complete the Center for Culinary Enterprises, a LEED-rated food-business incubator and community-health hub.