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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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    Morro Bay
    Framework Type: Community Benefits Agreement
    Sector: Wind
    Project Summary: Castle Wind LLC seeks to develop an offshore wind project off the coast of San Luis Obispo county, California.
    Parties to framework: City of Morro Bay; Castle Wind LLC
    State: California
    Year Signed: 2018
    Benefits included:
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Environmental and climate
    • Other
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Use its best efforts to promote local hiring (p. 4)
    – Use its best efforts to establish internship/trainee programs with local schools (p. 4)
    Benefits - Environmental and climate:
    – Castle Wind has engaged with Morro Bay Commercial Fishermen Organization and the Port San Luis Commercial Fishermen Association on fishing impacts and formed a mutual benefits agreement and fund to be used to mitigate environmental impacts; Castle Wind will make annual contributions (p. 35)
    Benefits - Other:
    – Use its best efforts to promote local accommodation and the hotel/housing sector during the construction phase (p. 4)
    – Use its best efforts to promote opportunities to generate “green solutions” with electric cars and sustainable energy solutions (p. 4)
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    MUFG Union Bank
    Framework Type: Community Benefits Plan
    Sector: Finance
    Project Summary: U.S. Bank seeks to acquire MUFG Union Bank in California.
    Parties to framework: MUFG Union Bank; US Bank; National Community Reinvestment Coalition; California Reinvestment Coalition; Alliance to End the Racial Wealth Gap
    State: California
    Year Signed: 2022
    Benefits included:
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Local infrastructure and housing
    • Environmental and climate
    • Financial support
    • Other
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Training and development program to introduce mortgage where BIPOC talent has been underrepresented, as career opportunities. (p. 5)
    Benefits - Local infrastructure and housing:
    – Increase mortgage lending units by 30% to low and middle income borrowers and communities of color over five years (p. 4)
    – Earmark $25 million for women and BIPOC-led and serving nonprofit organizations, to support home-ownership focused nonprofits, foreclosure prevention, and homeownership preservation. (p. 4)
    – Invest $10 million to fund down payment assistance programs in California over five years (p. 4)
    Benefits - Environmental and climate:
    – Company-wide commitment to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, source 100% renewable electricity by 2025, and establish an environmental finance goal of $50 billion by 2030 (p. 12)
    – Continue to pursue investments in renewable energy, provide solutions to enable customers to advance environmental sustainability, pursue partnerships to improve access to affordable energy, efficient technologies, and a clean environment, prioritize improvement of climate resilience of low and middle income communities (p. 12)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Bank will lend, invest, donate an estimated $60 billion in California, focusing on low, and moderate income borrowers, LMI communities and communities of color (p. 2)
    – Increase lending to small businesses/farms by 20%, providing an estimated $15 billion over 5 years, prioritizing access to credit for people of color & businesses in LMI census tracts (p. 6)
    – Provide $8.5 million in new business line funding over five years to expand the access home program (p. 4)
    – Increase investments to community and economic development, affordable housing, environmental and social impact lensing by 50% (an estimated $9.3 billion in community development lending/investment). (p. 7)
    – Invest additional $115 million in philantropy for national programs focused on racial equity and access to capital. (p. 9)
    Benefits - Other:
    – Use $8.5 million of new funds to expand the U.S. Bank Access Home program to include Enhanced Adult Financial Education sessions, youth outreach, community outreach and educational sessions on sustainable home ownership, etc. (p. 5)
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    Nantucket Vineyard Wind
    Framework Type: Good Neighbor Agreement
    Sector: Wind
    Project Summary: Vineyard Wind LLC seeks to construct and operate five offshore wind power projects on the Outer Continental Shelf off the shore of Massachusetts.
    Parties to framework: Vineyard Wind LLC; Town and County of Nantucket, Massachusetts; Maria Mitchell Association (MMA); Nantucket Preservation Trust (NPT)
    State: Massachusetts
    Year Signed: 2020
    Benefits included:
    • Environmental and climate
    • Other
    Benefits - Environmental and climate:
    – Establish the Nantucket Offshore Wind Community Fund to support projects related to protecting, restoring, and preserving cultural and historic resources, coastal resiliency, climate adaptation, renewable energy, and other such areas. Contribute a total of $7 million to the fund over time (p. 3-4)
    Benefits - Other:
    – Minimize visual impacts of the turbines (p. 4)
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    Nashville MLS Soccer
    Framework Type: Community Benefits Agreement
    Sector: Entertainment
    Project Summary: Nashville Soccer Holdings LLC seeks to construct a multi-purpose Major League Soccer stadium in Nashville, Tennessee.
    Parties to framework: "Stand Up Nashville, Inc.; Nashville Soccer Holdings, LLC; ; the Sports Authority of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County"
    State: Tennessee
    Year Signed: 2018
    Benefits included:
    • Education
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Local infrastructure and housing
    • Other
    Benefits - Education:
    – Will use best efforts to have the US Soccer Federation set up "Soccer For Success" free after-school program to help kids establish healthy habits (p. 3)
    – Donate new or used soccer equipment to schools (p. 3)
    – Host an annual coaching clinic for local schools and youth organizations (p. 3)
    – Institute a program for students to participate in pre-game, halftime, and post-game shows (p. 3)
    – NSH will provide up to 10 need-based scholarships in Promise Zone communities (p. 3)
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Provide opportunities for local artists to participate in beautification projects (p. 3)
    – Summer youth internships and jobs through the Opportunity Now Program and applicable jobs (up to 10) through the Employment Connections Program (p. 5)
    – Will prioritize local hires at all levels of the organization (p. 5)
    Benefits - Local infrastructure and housing:
    – Reserve at least 4,000 square feet within or close to stadium for a childcare center (p. 2)
    – Reserve retail space to establish a micro-unit incubator for the use of artisans and small business merchants (p. 2)
    – 12% of residential units within the development will be designated as affordable housing (p. 4)
    Benefits - Other:
    – Provide approximately 50 free seats per home game to local nonprofits (p. 3)
    – Contribute 500 volunteer hours per year to Nashville charitable organizations (p. 3
    – Create food service fundraising opportunities for local nonprofits (p. 3)
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    New Bedford
    Framework Type: Host Community Agreement
    Sector: Entertainment
    Project Summary: KG Urban Enterprises seeks to develop a brownfield power station into a waterfront resort casino in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
    Parties to framework: City of New Bedford, Massachusetts; KG New Bedford, LLC
    State: Massachusetts
    Year Signed: 2015
    Benefits included:
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Local infrastructure and housing
    • Environmental and climate
    • Other financial support
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Use good faith efforts to relocate a local business (NStar) at a cost of no more than $15 million (p. 11)
    – Use good faith efforts to hire 20% of total employee hours for construction to be by city residents and preference to city residents for all jobs (p. 15)
    – Use good faith efforts to employ “suitably qualified minorities, women, and veterans” for construction (p. 15)
    – Intends to use union labor and has entered an agreement with two local Trades Councils (p. 15)
    – Use good faith efforts to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with Bristol Community College on initiatives and cooperation toward workforce training (p. 16)
    – Use good faith efforts to purchase at least $10 million or more in goods and services annually from City vendors/businesses (p. 16)
    Benefits - Local infrastructure and housing:
    – Allow public access to the Waterfront part of the development, including a newly built harbor walk, an estimated cost of $10 million (p. 11)
    Benefits - Environmental and climate:
    – Remediate the existing environmental contamination at the project site (a Brownfield) at an estimated cost of $50 million (p. 10-11)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Reimburse the city's costs for project planning and review, impact studies, and including negotiating this agreement, up to $90,000 (p. 4)
    – Pay the City a $4.5 million Preliminary Economic Generation Payment to promote economic development, harbor development, and community preservation (p. 6).
    – Provide an Annual Impact Payment of $500,000 to the City (p. 8).
    – Issue $50,000 annually in reward/loyalty programs including gifts cards and discounts to local businesses (p. 12)
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