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    Database of Community Benefits Frameworks Across the US

    This database includes information pertaining to different types of publicly available community benefits frameworks, including community benefits agreements (CBAs), host community agreements (HCAs), project workforce agreements (PWAs) and community benefit plans (CBPs), amongst others. They can be an important tool to ensure that tangible benefits from development projects are felt locally, enable communities to create or fund programs that matter to them, and help developers develop local relationships and earn community acceptance of a project. This database, therefore, aims to provide information that would be useful to community organizers, policymakers, lawyers, researchers, developers, and other individuals interested in better understanding how agreements between developers and local communities are structured to provide benefits to a local community as part of the development of a specific project.

    Compiled by the World Resources Institute and Data for Progress, this database will regularly be updated as more community benefit frameworks are reviewed and analyzed. If you have access to community benefit frameworks not reflected in this database, please reach out to us here.

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    Silicon Valley Bank
    Framework Type: Community Benefits Plan
    Sector: Finance
    Project Summary: Silicon Valley Bank, which operates in California, seeks to merge with Boston Private Bank.
    Parties to framework: Greenlining Institute (GI); California Reinvestment Coalition (CRC); Boston Private Bank; Silicon Valley Bank (SVB)
    State: California
    Year Signed: 2021
    Benefits included:
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Other
    • Other financial support
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Supplier Diversity plan to expand its use of minority- and women-owned suppliers (p. 1)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – $60 million in charitable contributions (p. 1)
    – $4 billion in small business loans of $1 million or less (p. 1)
    – $4 billion in CRA community development (“CD”) loans and investments (p. 1)
    – $1 billion in residential mortgages to low- and moderate-income borrowers (p. 1)
    Benefits - Other:
    – Work to ensure its community development efforts promote a green economy and green communities that build wealth in communities of color (p. 5)
    – Adopting an anti-displacement policy (p. 5)
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    South Fork Wind
    Framework Type: Host Community Agreement
    Sector: Wind
    Project Summary: South Fork Wind LLC seeks to develop an offshore wind farm and electricity transmission line near Montauk Point, New York.
    Parties to framework: South Fork Wind, LLC; Town of East Hampton; The Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonality of the Town of East Hampton
    State: New York
    Year Signed: 2021
    Benefits included:
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Other financial support
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Make good faith efforts to make qualified residents of the town aware of job openings in connection with the project (p.4)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Pay the town and the trustees $700,000 as the first of twenty-five annual installments and after that, an additional 2% per year escalation factor; the total amount to be paid is $22,421,210 (p. 4)
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    Staples Center
    Framework Type: Community Benefits Agreement
    Sector: Entertainment
    Project Summary: L.A. Arena Land Company and Flower Holdings, LLC seek to develop a sports and entertainment district in the Figueroa Corridor neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
    Parties to framework: Figueroa Corridor Coalition for Economic Justice; L.A. Arena Land Company and Flower Holdings, LLC.
    State: California
    Year Signed: 2001
    Benefits included:
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Local infrastructure and housing
    • Other financial support
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Commit to 70% of project jobs being Living Wage jobs (p. 5)
    – $100,000 for the creation of a First Source Referral System for job training and coordination with community-based organizations (p. 8)
    Benefits - Local infrastructure and housing:
    – Provide $50,000-$75,000 for an assessment of the need for parks, open spaces, and recreational facilities in the area (p. 2)
    – Provide at least $1 million for creation or improvement of parks and recreational facilities within a one-mile radius of the project, completed within 5 years (p. 2)
    – Create a street-level public plaza and several additional public spaces (p. 3)
    – Provide $25,000 per year for five years for a residential parking program (p. 3)
    – Create between 500-800 housing units, of which at least 20% will be affordable housing and will remain affordable for at minimum 30 years (p. 9)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Provide up to $650,000 in interest-free loans to nonprofit affordable housing developers in the local community, with full repayment due in three years (p. 11)
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    Stillwater Mining and United Steelworkers
    Framework Type: Agreement
    Sector: Other
    Project Summary: Stillwater Mining Company and the United Steelworkers Union seek to enter into a union agreement.
    Parties to framework: Stillwater Mining Company; United Steel Workers Union
    State: Montana
    Year Signed: 2008
    Benefits included:
    • Education
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Health and safety
    Benefits - Education:
    – Employees' participation in continuing education classes will count as worked time (p. 31-40)
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Employees laid off will receive 1 week of severance pay for each year of continuous service with the company (p. 10)
    – Will not contract out work to non-company employees as long as there are union employees qualified to do this work (p. 24)
    Benefits - Health and safety:
    – Establish and operate a Joint Safety and Health Committee to conduct occupational health and medical monitoring to measure exposures in the workplace (p. 15)
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    Stillwater Mining Company
    Framework Type: Good Neighbor Agreement
    Sector: Other
    Project Summary: Stillwater Mining Company seeks to continue operating a mine in Montana.
    Parties to framework: Stillwater Mining Company (SMC); Northern Plains Resource Council; Cottonwood Resource Council; Stillwater Protective Association
    State: Montana
    Year Signed: 2000
    Benefits included:
    • Local infrastructure and housing
    • Health and safety
    • Environmental and climate
    • Financial support
    • Other
    Benefits - Local infrastructure and housing:
    – Develop and implement a comprehensive busing and traffic reduction plan (p. 30)
    – Develop a traffic plan to minimize mine-related traffic on access roads (p. 52-59)
    Benefits - Health and safety:
    – Minimize noise pollution, light pollution (p. 53)
    – Pay for third party groundwater studies up to $200,000 (p. 101)
    Benefits - Environmental and climate:
    – Create conservation easements (p. 27-29)
    – Pay for third party environmental audits up to $30,000 in related expenses per audit year (p. 59-61)
    – Pay for third party fisheries monitoring up to $20,000 in related expenses per sampling year (p. 78)
    – Minimize particulate matter air pollution, water pollution, wildlife impacts (p. 99, 80, 101, 107)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Reimbursement of up to $135,000 per year to community organizations for qualifying expenses to ensure they have the ability and expertise to help implement the agreement (p. 15)
    Benefits - Other:
    – Conduct an economic feasibility study of any new developments or technology deployments on the mine to determine whether the benefits of these outweigh the direct and indirect costs to the community (p. 19)
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