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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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    Wright Solar PV Project
    Framework Type: Solar Benefits Agreement
    Sector: Solar
    Project Summary: Wright Solar Park LLC seeks to develop a 200 MW solar photovoltaic facility in Merced County, California.
    Parties to framework: Wright Solar Park LLC; County of Merced
    State: California
    Year Signed: 2015
    Benefits included:
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Local infrastructure and housing
    • Other financial support
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – A local bidder/suppliers preference for firms and individuals whose primary place of business is located within Merced County (p. 3)
    Benefits - Local infrastructure and housing:
    – Company will enroll in the Adopt a Highway program (pg. 3)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – 'Act in good faith' and use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the sales and use taxes associated with project construction occur in Merced County area. The Wright Solar Park will provide a bonded guarantee of $4.12 million (80% of the anticipated mean) as a minimum (p. 2)
    – Annual payment to the County's General Fund of $25k per year for 20 years to offset any impacts to county services including public safety services. If a lithium battery is installed, the annual payment will increase to $30k (p. 3)
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    Yale-New Haven Hospital
    Framework Type: Community Benefits Agreement
    Sector: Health
    Project Summary: Yale-New Haven Hospital, Inc. seeks to develop a cancer treatment center in New Haven, Connecticut.
    Parties to framework: City of New Haven; Yale-New Haven Hospital, Inc.
    State: Connecticut
    Year Signed: 2006
    Benefits included:
    • Education
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Local infrastructure and housing
    • Health and safety
    • Other financial support
    Benefits - Education:
    – Provide $100,000 per year for at least 5 years to establish a Career Ladder Program to help employees in entry-level non-healthcare positions and 100 residents from the neighborhoods surrounding the hospital's campus, the opportunity to enter the healthcare field (p. 5)
    – Provide at least $200,000 per year for at least 5 years to the existing Nursing Career Ladder Program (p. 6)
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Hire no less than 100 local residents for full-time positions each year for at least five years (p. 7)
    Benefits - Local infrastructure and housing:
    – Contribute no more than $75,000 to the City’s medical area planning study (p. 6)
    – Complete and fund the installation of 12 traffic-actuated signals (at streets/intersections specified in agreement) (p. 6)
    Benefits - Health and safety:
    – Pay $140,000 for a minimum of 5 years to fund two new City positions: an asthma outreach coordinator and an uninsured children’s outreach coordinator to identify and serve local children (p. 6)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Pay $1.5 million to the City ($300,000 annually for five years) for housing and economic development in the neighborhoods near the Hospital (p. 5)
    – Contribute $100,000 per year for a minimum of 5 years to the Youth Initiative established by the Mayor (p. 6)
    – For at least five years, the Hospital will make a voluntary payment to the City based on the formula mentioned in the agreement (p. 8)
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