To provide direct consulting to five cities – Detroit, Macon, Miami, Philadelphia and Saint Paul – on how to adapt to COVID-related budget shortfalls.
Program Area: Communities
To support Give Miami Day 2020, a program of The Miami Foundation which engages community to support local nonprofit organizations through a 24-hour annual giving event.
To support the evolution of Talent Scout Miami into a freestanding, membership-based organization that connects pre-qualified individuals from diverse backgrounds with Miami-based technology companies.
To support the growth of the School of Computing and Information Sciences (SCIS) at Florida International University as it seeks to become a leading school for computer science and engineering in Florida and the go-to talent pipeline for industry in the region.
To support community engagement in the planning and design of the Underdeck, a mile-long linear park created by I-395’s redesign.
To support a Black-led, community-owned grocery store that will spur commercial development in Detroit’s North End and surrounding neighborhoods.
To build an architecturally significant community library and meeting space as part of a growing urban farm development in Detroit’s North End.
To support public and civic engagement in the design and execution of the Mayor’s Community-First Public Safety Initiative.
To support a statewide collaboration of philanthropies to advance equity in Minnesota.
To develop a scalable, collaborative planning process and web-based tool in Philadelphia for engaging communities around historic preservation, housing affordability and future zoning within their neighborhoods.
To build an equity dashboard that draws on data collected from across city departments as a pilot for a citywide strategy to better deploy data in decision making.