Promoting Metropolitan Land-Use Innovation

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The Housing Partnership Network, Inc. Amount awarded: $250,000$XXX,XXX.000
Lower 9th Ward-NENA Amount awarded: $150,000$XXX,XXX.000
Texas Low Income Housing Information Service Amount awarded: $600,000$XXX,XXX.000
Congress for the New Urbanism Amount awarded: $150,000$XXX,XXX.000
San Diego Housing Federation Amount awarded: $600,000$XXX,XXX.000
Align: The Alliance for a Greater New York, Inc. Amount awarded: $280,000$XXX,XXX.000
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Amount awarded: $300,000$XXX,XXX.000
Community Voices Heard Amount awarded: $175,000$XXX,XXX.000
Wayne State University Amount awarded: $1,000,000$XXX,XXX.000
Georgia Strategic Alliance for New Directions and Unified Policies, Inc. Amount awarded: $450,000$XXX,XXX.000
The Urban Institute Amount awarded: $250,000$XXX,XXX.000
Tides Center Amount awarded: $100,000$XXX,XXX.000
Environmental Health Coalition Amount awarded: $325,000$XXX,XXX.000
Poverty and Race Research Action Council Amount awarded: $500,000$XXX,XXX.000
Community Development Corporation of Brownsville, Inc Amount awarded: $200,000$XXX,XXX.000
West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc. Amount awarded: $270,000$XXX,XXX.000
Partnership for Southern Equity Inc Amount awarded: $185,000$XXX,XXX.000

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The Housing Partnership Network, Inc.

For the Community Assets Resolution Entity Initiative to acquire, reposition and transfer low-value single-family assets and notes to local neighborhood stabilization collaboratives

Amount	$250,000
Period	2010
Region	United States
Issue	Metropolitan Opportunity
Initiative	Promoting Metropolitan Land-Use Innovation
Primary Approach	Program Demonstration and Scaling

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Lower 9th Ward-NENA

Net asset grant to accompany a program-related investment establishing a working capital fund for a community land trust to build affordable housing in the Lower 9th Ward

Amount	$150,000
Period	2010
Region	United States
Issue	Metropolitan Opportunity
Initiative	Promoting Metropolitan Land-Use Innovation
Primary Approach	Program Demonstration and Scaling

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Texas Low Income Housing Information Service

To ensure that federal disaster recovery funds are allocated for fair housing development in the Rio Grande Valley and cities near the Gulf Coast of Texas

Amount	$600,000
Period	2011
Region	United States
Issue	Metropolitan Opportunity
Initiative	Promoting Metropolitan Land-Use Innovation
Primary Approach	Program Demonstration and Scaling

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Congress for the New Urbanism

For the Sustainable Streets Campaign to bring attention to the benefits of new urbanist transportation practices, including the conversion of elevated highways into restored surface-level boulevards

Amount	$150,000
Period	2010
Region	United States
Issue	Metropolitan Opportunity
Initiative	Promoting Metropolitan Land-Use Innovation
Primary Approach	Stakeholder Development and Collaboration

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San Diego Housing Federation

For Sustainable San Diego to advocate for integrated land use, housing, transportation, environmental health, social equity and economic development policies

Amount	$600,000
Period	2011
Region	United States
Issue	Metropolitan Opportunity
Initiative	Promoting Metropolitan Land-Use Innovation
Primary Approach	Stakeholder Development and Collaboration

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Align: The Alliance for a Greater New York, Inc.

To develop a “Blueprint for Working New York” agenda offering an alternative platform for community & labor advocacy for equitable development, job creation & an open & accountable democratic process

Amount	$280,000
Period	2011
Region	United States
Issue	Metropolitan Opportunity
Initiative	Promoting Metropolitan Land-Use Innovation
Primary Approach	Stakeholder Development and Collaboration

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Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

To identify innovative approaches to & best practices for integrating community development & fair housing activities and articulate a shared vision and strategy for work at the sectors’ intersection

Amount	$300,000
Period	2011
Region	United States
Issue	Metropolitan Opportunity
Initiative	Promoting Metropolitan Land-Use Innovation
Primary Approach	Stakeholder Development and Collaboration

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Community Voices Heard

For advocacy, community organizing and regional planning to further equitable and participatory community and economic development in the New York metropolitan area

Amount	$175,000
Period	2012
Region	United States
Issue	Metropolitan Opportunity
Initiative	Promoting Metropolitan Land-Use Innovation
Primary Approach	Stakeholder Development and Collaboration

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Wayne State University

For the Detroit Revitalization Fellows program to cultivate, develop and retain a talent pool of young leaders to build the capacity of organizations actively working to shape the Detroit of tomorrow

Amount	$1,000,000
Period	2011
Region	United States
Issue	Metropolitan Opportunity
Initiative	Promoting Metropolitan Land-Use Innovation
Primary Approach	Capacity Building and Technical Assistance

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Georgia Strategic Alliance for New Directions and Unified Policies, Inc.

General support to help create healthy livable neighborhoods while respecting the rights of existing residents to benefit from the progress and developments taking place within their communities

Amount	$450,000
Period	2011
Region	United States
Issue	Metropolitan Opportunity
Initiative	Promoting Metropolitan Land-Use Innovation
Primary Approach	Capacity Building and Technical Assistance

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The Urban Institute

For the MetroTrends Web site to systematically engage with national and local audiences and deliver data, analysis and tools that promote and facilitate place-based equity work in metropolitan regions

Amount	$250,000
Period	2011
Region	United States
Issue	Metropolitan Opportunity
Initiative	Promoting Metropolitan Land-Use Innovation
Primary Approach	Research and Public Policy Analysis

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Tides Center

For Empire State Futures to advocate for regional land use, infrastructure investment and job creation policies that advance equitable transit-oriented development in the New York metropolitan area

Amount	$100,000
Period	2011
Region	United States
Issue	Metropolitan Opportunity
Initiative	Promoting Metropolitan Land-Use Innovation
Primary Approach	Research and Public Policy Analysis

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Environmental Health Coalition

General support for community organizing and advocacy to protect public health and the environment against toxic pollution, promote a just society and foster a healthy, sustainable quality of life

Amount	$325,000
Period	2011
Region	United States
Issue	Metropolitan Opportunity
Initiative	Promoting Metropolitan Land-Use Innovation
Primary Approach	Advocacy, Litigation and Reform

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Poverty and Race Research Action Council

For research and advocacy to address structural inequality in federal housing and education programs

Amount	$500,000
Period	2011
Region	United States
Issue	Metropolitan Opportunity
Initiative	Promoting Metropolitan Land-Use Innovation
Primary Approach	Advocacy, Litigation and Reform
Secondary Approach	Advocacy, Litigation and Reform

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Community Development Corporation of Brownsville, Inc

For grant making to link regional efforts to build economic growth and competitiveness in the colonias of the Rio Grande Valley through community planning, design and public policy programs

Amount	$200,000
Period	2011
Region	United States
Issue	Metropolitan Opportunity
Initiative	Promoting Metropolitan Land-Use Innovation
Primary Approach	Advocacy, Litigation and Reform

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West Harlem Environmental Action, Inc.

For the New York State Transit Equity Alliance to advocate for policies that ensure more equitable distribution of housing and transportation in the region

Amount	$270,000
Period	2011
Region	United States
Issue	Metropolitan Opportunity
Initiative	Promoting Metropolitan Land-Use Innovation
Primary Approach	Advocacy, Litigation and Reform

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Partnership for Southern Equity Inc

To advance regional equity in emerging transit, housing and economic development policy debates in the metropolitan Atlanta region

Amount	$185,000
Period	2011
Region	United States
Issue	Metropolitan Opportunity
Initiative	Promoting Metropolitan Land-Use Innovation
Primary Approach	Advocacy, Litigation and Reform

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