Local Recovery Story: Community-driven planning in PA
On Tuesday, a number of organizations met to plan out how portions of the Recovery Act should be spent in counties in Pennsylvania. These organizations covered many sectors: for-profit, non-profit, academic, government, grassroots, labor, and community development. The purpose of the meeting was to identify community-driven and sustainability-based priorities for Recovery money.
On Tuesday, a number of organizations met to plan out how portions of the Recovery Act should be spent in counties in Pennsylvania. These organizations covered many sectors: for-profit, non-profit, academic, government, grassroots, labor, and community development. The purpose of the meeting was to identify community-driven and sustainability-based priorities for Recovery money.
Cross posted from Everybody Vote.
B-PEP, REMP & Green Innovators partner on ARRA Priorities
Everybody VOTE & PA VOICE partner B-PEP’s Regional Equity Monitoring Project (REMP) played a lead role with Pittsburgh Green Innovators and Penn State University’s Extension Service in leading a facilitated planning session focused on identifying community-driven, sustainability-based priorities for portions of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding. Over 50 people from across Pittsburgh and Allegheny County participated in the session, representing the for-profit, non-profit, academic, government, grass roots, labor and community development sectors.
Event partners established core collaborative values and shared priorities to begin capitalizing on the once-in-a-lifetime opportunities offered by ARRA funding, and to help establish a shared, open process for establishing recommendations and increasing access to funding that can have a real impact on our Pittsburgh neighborhoods and communities across Allegheny County.
Today’s 4/28/09 meeting was the first in what participants
determined would be a series of meetings to establish recommendations
to City and County officials, to share resources and information, and
to begin to establish a long-term collaborative effort to help build a
more sustainable Pittsburgh region.
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Use of Stimulus Funding
Check it out as a whole different model on how a city can direct its stimulus funding to rebuild its communities not just sprinkle money around or force progressive, community leaders to try to bend a broken system to its under-resourced will.