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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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    CRC CRT
    Framework Type: Settlement Agreement
    Sector: Finance
    Project Summary: California Reinvestment Coalition (CRC) and CIT Bank reached a reconciliation agreement to resolve CRC's complaint of alleged discrimination by CIT Bank.
    Parties to framework: CIT Group Inc; California Reinvestment Coalition
    State: California
    Year Signed: 2019
    Benefits included:
    • Local infrastructure and housing
    • Financial support
    • Other
    Benefits - Local infrastructure and housing:
    – Will open or acquire a retail branch in the Community Reinvestment Act assessment area (p. 4)
    – Make $5 million available for Affordable Home Mortgage Program (p. 5)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Originate $100 million over term of agreement in home purchase, improvement and refinancing loans to borrowers in majority-minority census tracts in CRA assessment area (p. 4)
    – Provide $1 million for grants to government, community development financial institutions, community development corporations and non-profit orgs that provide community services and benefits (p. 6)
    – Provide $1.3m for marketing and outreach to consumers in majority-minority census tracts (p. 6)
    – Donate $100,000 to the CRC to support its community reinvestment work (p. 7)
    Benefits - Other:
    – Require employees to have training for fair lending (p. 7)
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    Dearborn Street
    Framework Type: Community Benefits Agreement
    Sector: Redevelopment/Construction
    Project Summary: Four development LLCs seek to construct and operate a mixed use housing and retail project in Seattle, Washington.
    Parties to framework: Puget Sound Sage (Sage); Washington Vietnamese American Chamber of Commerce (WAVA Chamber); Jackson Place Community Council (JPCC); Hod Carriers and General Laborers Union (Laborers Union); Developers (various LLCs collaborating on mixed use housing and r
    State: Washington
    Year Signed: 2008
    Benefits included:
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Local infrastructure and housing
    • Other
    • Other financial support
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Prioritize hiring of local residents. Developers shall work in good faith with local agencies (p. 10)
    Benefits - Local infrastructure and housing:
    – Must construct 400 units of housing (70 family-sized units), 200 of which should be affordable housing units (of those affordable units, 120 should be affordable to households with less than 50% median income, 50 should be family housing units) (p. 8-9)
    – Must include 2 EV parking spots and 6 car-sharing spots (p. 10)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Create a rental assistance subsidy program worth $150,000 per year for ten years for locally-owned and minority-owned businesses within the development if the Center for Community Non-profits is not approved by the Department of Treasury (p. 7)
    – Community funds for traffic mitigation ($150k), right of way improvements ($50k), community cultural center/public market development ($200k), and 12 years of $50k annual funds to improve commercial viability and neighborhood vitality (p. 9-10)
    Benefits - Other:
    – Ensure that at least 5,000 square feet of space of project site are available for lease to one or more non-profit organizations providing services to Vietnamese Community in greater Seattle area for 10 years (p. 6)
    – Developers to ensure availability for community events at least twelve times a year (p. 7)
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    Deepwater Wind
    Framework Type: Community Benefits Agreement
    Sector: Wind
    Project Summary: Deepwater Wind South Fork LLC seeks to develop an offshore wind farm in federal waters 30+ miles east of East Hampton, New York.
    Parties to framework: Deepwater Wind South Fork, LLC; Town of East Hampton, New York; The Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of the Town of East Hampton
    State: New York
    Year Signed: 2018
    Benefits included:
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Local infrastructure and housing
    • Environmental and climate
    • Other financial support
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Require its turbine maintenance contractor to establish and maintain its business in Montauk until the project ceases operation (p. 3)
    – Make good faith efforts to make qualified residents of the Town of East Hampton aware of job openings in connection with the operations and maintenance facility (p. 3)
    Benefits - Local infrastructure and housing:
    – Fund the burial of the existing overhead utility (electric distribution, telephone, internet, and cable) lines and remove poles, and will reimburse the Town for costs incurred; will also fund a project manager to oversee such work up to $250,000 (p. 4)
    Benefits - Environmental and climate:
    – Contribute $2 million to the town’s Ocean Industries Sustainability Program (p. 4)
    – Contribute $200,000 to establish an Energy Sustainability and Resilience Fund to support the Town’s transition to 100% renewable energy and increases its resiliency (p. 5)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Contribute $1 million to establish an Inshore Fisheries Resource Assistance Fund to be overseen by the Town to promote the economic sustainability of the local inshore fishing community (p. 4)
    – Contribute $1 million to establish a Wainscott Water Infrastructure Fund to be administered by the Town (p. 5)
    – Contribute $75,000 annually for up to 20 years to establish a Marine Infrastructure Management and Improvement Fund to be administered by the Town (p. 5)
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    Eight Point Wind Energy Center
    Framework Type: Host Community Agreement
    Sector: Wind
    Project Summary: Eight Point Wind LLC seeks to construct and operate a wind farm in the towns of Greenwood and West Union, New York.
    Parties to framework: Eight Point Wind LLC; Town of West Union, New York ('The Town')
    State: New York
    Year Signed: 2019
    Benefits included:
    • Financial support
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Pay town $3,000 per year per nameplate capacity defined in terms of megawatts constructed in the Town, until project ceases commercial operation or agreement is terminated. Payments to increase by 3% annually (p. 1)
    – Pay town reasonable fees for professional services incurred by town as a direct result of the wind project to the extent such fees are not paid for from the fund for municipal and local party intervenors (p. 2)
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    Facebook Campus Expansion at Menlo Park
    Framework Type: Community Benefits Agreement
    Sector: Redevelopment/Construction
    Project Summary: Facebook, Inc seeks to expand its campus in Menlo Park, California.
    Parties to framework: Facebook, Inc.; Hibiscus Properties, LLC; American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Foundation of Northern California; Public Advocates, Inc.; Comité de Vecinos del Lado Oeste, East Palo Alto; Youth United for Community Action; Faith in Action Bay Area; etc.
    State: California
    Year Signed: 2016
    Benefits included:
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Other financial support
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Spend $625,000 over five years to provide a pipeline training program for local residents to pursue STEM training; training will be provided by one or more nonprofits (p. 24)
    Benefits - Local infrastructure and housing:
    – Spend $18.5 million to develop a Catalyst Housing Fund to identify and finance opportunities for the development and preservation of long-term affordable housing in the vicinity of the Facebook campus (p. 15)
    – Contribute $250,000 to Rebuilding Together Peninsula, to be used to support the rehabilitation, modification, or reconstruction of homes, including second units, in East Palo Alto and Belle Haven, focusing on low income residents (p. 23)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Spend $500,000 to create a Tenant Assistance Fund to provide legal assistance and relief to those threatened by displacement from evictions or experiencing unsafe living conditions (p. 23)
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