Saying the Launch of a New Initiative

With assist from the Robert Wooden Johnson Basis, Good Progress America in collaboration with Equitable Cities, the New City Mobility Alliance, and America Walks launches this week the Group Connectors Program, a brand new initiative that helps and funds leaders in small and mid-sized communities—out and in of presidency—to restore the harm of divisive infrastructure. Grants can be found for 15 groups from cities and cities throughout America to hitch collectively in a studying trade and advance tasks that reconnect communities separated or harmed by transportation infrastructure.

Eradicating divisive infrastructure is basically uncharted territory in the USA, however the necessity to repair the harm it has brought on is crucial. Transportation infrastructure like dividing highways and harmful arterial roads usually separates and harms the communities dwelling round them. That is significantly true for Black and brown communities, who usually tend to stay close to massive roads and face the environmental, financial, and social harms they trigger.

The Group Connectors Program goals to construct native capability to co-design tasks with probably the most impacted communities in order that they immediately profit from new transportation infrastructure investments that restore harm. The shortage of a roadmap for this sort of work makes it tough to simply replicate prior successes. The Group Connectors Program hyperlinks native leaders to consultants and different cities making an attempt to perform related targets in reconnecting communities.

The Group Connectors name for grant functions open on Could 22 and are due earlier than July 15, 2023 at 11:59 p.m ET. Full utility and eligibility particulars can be found at Group Connectors Grant Utility.

Need to study extra?

Be part of us at a webinar on June 6, 2023 at 2:00 pm ET to study extra about this technical help, capability constructing, and grantmaking program and the way your neighborhood can apply.

Who ought to be ?

• Non-profit neighborhood based mostly organizations, authorities businesses (together with US territories), and tribes working to reconnect communities in jurisdictions with a inhabitants between ~50,000 and 500,000.
• The Group Connectors Program is meant to assist low-income and/or deprived communities the place making use of for federal funding or steering their state towards smarter and extra equitable investments is difficult.
• The Group Connectors Program is looking for a various vary of challenge sorts past freeway elimination or restore, together with tasks to make present harmful arterial roads safer, enhance entry to transit, and handle accessibility obstacles, amongst others.

Studying Aims

Webinar contributors ought to go away the webinar with elevated understanding of the next:

• The targets and goals of the Group Connectors Program and the way they relate to present state and federal transportation funding alternatives.
• Eligible actions for the Group Connectors Program’s capability constructing and technical help grants.
• The kinds of tasks and candidates eligible for the Group Connectors Program.
• The construction, utility course of, and key dates for the Group Connectors Program.

Watch Our Earlier Webinar

Like all of our webinars, this might be recorded and obtainable after the actual fact. However you’ll need to be a part of us in real-time in the event you can for the chance to ask questions of our friends and live-tweet together with us. You’ll additionally obtain ample assets and extra supplies in the event you RSVP.

Be part of us: Wednesday, June sixth
2:00pm – 3:00pm ET