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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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    Umpqua Bank
    Framework Type: Community Benefits Agreement
    Sector: Finance
    Project Summary: Umpqua Bank seeks to merge with Columbia Banking System in California.
    Parties to framework: Umpqua Holdings Corporation; Umpqua Bank; Columbia Banking System Inc; Columbia State Bank
    State: California
    Year Signed: 2022
    Benefits included:
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Local infrastructure and housing
    • Financial support
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Hire diverse mortgage loan officers that reflect the community (p. 6)
    – Train and support business loan officers to work with nonprofits and outreach efforts (p. 6)
    – Increase support for services that help people gain employment and job training, particularly for people of color, immigrants (p. 13)
    Benefits - Local infrastructure and housing:
    – Explore mortgage product design that will serve minority and LMI borrowers, explore programs to help increases mortgage originations for Native American borrowers. (p. 5)
    – Provide housing counseling and increase support for housing counseling organizations, financial empowerment organizations and other organizations (p. 5)
    – Collaborate with organizations aiming to keep Black residents and businesses within communities they have been in for decades. (p. 6)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Increase minority mortgage lending over 5 years (p. 3-4)
    – Increase small business loan goals by 16% over 5 years (p. 7)
    – Commit to prioritize financing minority-led organizations engaged in economic or social development. (p. 9)
    – Bank will make grants for capacity building of minority led and serving organizations a priority of its community reinvestment and philanthropic initiatives. Will set annual goal as a dedicated fund of $21,173,700 cumulatively over five years (p. 11)
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    Warm Springs/South Fremont Project
    Framework Type: Community Benefits Agreement
    Sector: Redevelopment/Construction
    Project Summary: Lennar Homes of California Inc seeks to develop a mixed use residential and commercial property in Fremont, California.
    Parties to framework: Congregations Organizing for Renewal; Lennar Homes of California, Inc.
    State: California
    Year Signed: 2015
    Benefits included:
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Local infrastructure and housing
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Resident services for the affordable housing will include workforce development services like job placement, resume development, job interview training, English as a second language classes, computer skills classes, and financial literacy classes at no cost. If not "sufficiently utilized" after 18 months, the services provider can substitute replacement services. (p. 6-7)
    – Developer will give $350,000 to a community organization-led trust to provide grants for job training and 50% of these funds must be used for construction job training (p. 6-7)
    Benefits - Local infrastructure and housing:
    – Project includes the construction of an elementary school (p. 1)
    – Project includes the construction of affordable housing (p. 1)
    – Project includes the creation of an Urban Park (p. 1)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Will provide $5k to Community Organization's legal counsel within 45 days of agreement effective date (p. 8)
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    Waste Management Disposal Services of Maine
    Framework Type: Host Community Agreement
    Sector: Waste/Landfill
    Project Summary: Waste Management Disposal Services of Maine Inc seeks to expand its waste disposal facility in Norridgewock, Maine.
    Parties to framework: Town of Norridgewock, Maine; Waste Management Disposal Services of Maine Inc.
    State: Maine
    Year Signed: 2019
    Benefits included:
    • Environmental and climate
    • Other financial support
    Benefits - Environmental and climate:
    – Provide environmental monitoring and water quality monitoring, and will share copies of reports to the town and Maine DEP (p. 4)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Provide $100,000 to a Technical Assistance Fund, to be used solely for direct technical support necessary for the conduct of municipal planning and decision-making (p. 5)
    – Pay an Annual Host Fee to the Town which can be used for any purpose (p. 8)
    – Will enter into Property Value Guarantee agreements with people who own property that abuts the facility and that contains single-family residences occupied by the owners (p. 9)
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    West Amwell and Green Medicine NJ
    Framework Type: Host Community Agreement
    Sector: Cannabis
    Project Summary: Green Medicine NJ LLC seeks to develop a medicinal cannabis farm in central New Jersey.
    Parties to framework: Green Medicine NJ LLC; Township of West Amwell
    State: New Jersey
    Year Signed: 2022
    Benefits included:
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Health and safety
    • Other
    • Other financial support
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Make efforts to hire locally (p. 3)
    Benefits - Health and safety:
    – Provide the Police Department with an immediate notification alert to an unauthorized breach, access to real-time security camera footage, (security records of the previous 30 days upon request, and a staff contact (p. 3)
    – Provide staff to participate in, and/or funding for, Township-sponsored educational programs on public health and drug abuse prevention (p. 3)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Pay 2% of gross revenue annually to the Township (p. 2)
    – Pay $100,000 per year for five years to the Township as a “community fee” (p. 2)
    – Pay a one-time $50,000 “community park” fee to the Township (p. 2)
    Benefits - Other:
    – The company will have direct discussions with community members and/or participate in community meetings related to cannabis up to four times per year (p. 3)
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    West Harlem Columbia Expansion
    Framework Type: Community Benefits Agreement
    Sector: Education
    Project Summary: Columbia University seeks to develop a new campus in the West Harlem neighborhood of New York City, New York.
    Parties to framework: West Harlem Local Development Corporation; The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
    State: New York
    Year Signed: 2009
    Benefits included:
    • Education
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Local infrastructure and housing
    • Other
    • Other financial support
    Benefits - Education:
    – Commits $30 million to build a Demonstration Community Public School, the K-5 public Teachers College Community School (p. 14).
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Make good faith efforts toward a goal to have the construction workforce composed of 50% of minority, women-owned, and local residents and businesses over the life of the project (p. 18)
    – Will include goals to make 35% dollar value of non-construction contracts for minority, women, and locally owned businesses throughout the life of the project; will make good faith efforts to hire local residents for at least 30% of employees after project completion (p. 20, 21)
    – Provide up to $750,000 to support the design, development, and implementation of skills-based education and workforce development training (p. 23)
    – Create the Community Information, Opportunities and Resources Center onsite to provide information and resources about business opportunities and jobs, construction schedules, safety and mitigation, and community-oriented service programs (p. 23)
    – Will create a high school internship pilot program for 15 summer interns from local community and the new public high school (p. 27)
    – Will contribute $100k/yr for five years to a matching program with community organizations for job training (p. 31)
    Benefits - Local infrastructure and housing:
    – Previously committed in a separate Memorandum with the Manhattan Borough President to contribute $20 million towards an Affordable Housing Fund; that commitment is listed in this agreement (p. 10)
    – Market no less than 12,000 square feet of the project site to local entrepreneurs and small businesses (p. 22)
    – Make 5,000 square feet of the project site available for use by local artists (p. 36)
    – Provide the City’s Department of Parks and Recreation $500,000 annually for the West Harlem Piers Park (p. 34)
    – Upgrade escalators at subway station and express support for community's efforts to improve local bus stops by providing shelters (p. 35, 36)
    – Will make available for lease to a non-profit day care provider 5,000 sq ft for day care to income eligibile families (p. 38)
    Benefits - Environmental and climate:
    – Will design and build the project's buildings to be LEED v2.2 Silver certified (p. 32)
    – Previously agreed to exercise reasonable efforts to reduce its GHG emissions by 2017 and further commits to establish $10M revolving fund to encourage energy efficiency measures in excess of the requirements for LEED certification, and will reduce energy consumption during construction, adopt emission reducing measures during construction, and use the best available control technology to limit particulate matter emissions during construction (p. 33)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Pay $76 million into a Benefits Fund that will then be paid out in installments over the course of 16 years to address workforce development, education, historic preservation, the arts, and community facilities (pp. 8, 9)
    – Provide up to $4 million to provide landlord-tenant legal advice and/or anti-eviction/anti-harassment legal assistance to tenants in the Manhattanville area (p. 10)
    Benefits - Other:
    – Provide access to the local community to a range of existing facilities and amenities with a market value of $20 million (p. 11)
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