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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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    McLean County Wind Project
    Framework Type: Neighbor Agreement
    Sector: Wind
    Project Summary: EDP Renewables North America LLC seeks to develop a wind power project in McClean County, Illinois.
    Parties to framework: 'Owners'; Lexington Chenoa Wind Farm LLC
    State: Illinois
    Year Signed: 2018
    Benefits included:
    • Environmental and climate
    • Other financial support
    Benefits - Environmental and climate:
    – Forbid the grantee from "overburdening" the owner's property easements to the grantee (p. 5)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Annual payment to owner of $2k and the amount shall increase annually by 2% (p. 10)
    – Signing bonus of $6k (p. 10)
    – One-time payment of $2k at the commencement of construction (p. 10)
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    Mechanics Bank
    Framework Type: Community Impact Goals
    Sector: Finance
    Project Summary: Mechanics Bank seeks to merge with Rabobank.
    Parties to framework: Mechanics Bank; California Reinvestment Coalition
    State: California
    Year Signed: 2020
    Benefits included:
    • Other
    • Other financial support
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Will provide lending solutions for new and developing businesses in low-moderate income communities (p. 2)
    – Will develop a small business loan referral program, partnering with local community CFDIs (p. 2)
    – Will devote 0.25% of current deposits annually to new community development investments for affordable housing developments, with $250k per year for community development investment funds to fund grants supporting nonprofit, community-based small business lenders (p. 3)
    – Will provide $60,000 annually to support the hiring of local economic health promotoras to promote immigrant access to financial services (p. 4)
    Benefits - Other:
    – Will work with community-based organizations to market and conduct outreach to reach LMI communities about 'home ready mortgage product' (p. 3)
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    Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District
    Framework Type: Community Benefits Agreement
    Sector: Waste/Landfill
    Project Summary: Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District seeks to improve its sewer system throughout St. Louis City and County in Missouri.
    Parties to framework: Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU); Metropolitan Congregations United (MCU); Construction Prep Center; etc.
    State: Missouri
    Year Signed: 2013
    Benefits included:
    • Education
    • Employment and Workforce training
    Benefits - Education:
    – Develop an educational enhancement and internship program in conjunction with public schools within its service area (p. 8)
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Provide annual funding of $150,000 for job training for sewer-related occupational titles and will seek additional partners to fund training (p. 4)
    – Creating a First Source Hiring Program that shall provide early access to targeted applicants for project jobs (p. 6)
    – Utilize the services of qualified minority business enterprise and woman business enterprise entities and shall initiate a program to enhance their participation (p. 8)
    – Assist to identify and/or develop a low-interest working capital revolving loan program to assist minority and women business enterprises seeking to perform work on the project (p. 8)
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    Milwaukee Bucks Stadium
    Framework Type: Community Benefits Agreement
    Sector: Entertainment
    Project Summary: Milwaukee Bucks LLC and the Head of the Herd LLC and Deer District LLC seek to develop a sports stadium.
    Parties to framework: Alliance for Good Jobs; Milwaukee Bucks LLC, the Head of the Herd LLC, Deer District LLC
    State: Wisconsin
    Year Signed: 2016
    Benefits included:
    • Employment and Workforce training
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Pay a "living wage" to covered employees, rate determined based on the agreement (p. 3)
    – Ensure at least 50% of employees reside locally (p. 5)
    – Establish and fund a hiring hall (p. 6)
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    Monhegan Plantation
    Framework Type: Community Benefits Agreement
    Sector: Wind
    Project Summary: Maine Aqua Ventus 1 GP LLC seeks to construct and operate a 12 MW offshore wind energy test site near Monhegan Island, Maine.
    Parties to framework: Monhegan Plantation; Monhegan Plantation Power District (MPPD); University of Maine System acting through the University of Maine (UM); Maine Aqua Ventus 1 GP, LLC (MAV)
    State: Maine
    Year Signed: 2017
    Benefits included:
    • Education
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Health and safety
    • Other
    • Other financial support
    Benefits - Education:
    – Offer one full tuition scholarship every year for at least 20 years to a Monhegan resident (p. 4)
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Monhegan residents will have first options to jobs created by the MAV Project where the applicants meet the qualifications for the positions (p. 3)
    – Provide, or make provisions for, reasonable training for Monhegan residents if needed (p. 3)
    Benefits - Health and safety:
    – Undertake best efforts to mitigate lighting impacts of the turbines and turbine platforms of the project (p. 3)
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Pay $100,000 for an initial energy/broadband infrastructure capital fund that may be used to implement grant work (p. 2)
    – Pay $100,000 to provide technical support to help other parties design an alternative and/or supplemental power generation system and on-island broadband system (p. 2)
    – Pay $2.33 million for a Monhegan Island energy/broadband infrastructure capital fund to be jointly administered by Monhegan and MPPD (p. 2)
    – Pay Monhegan $40,000 each year until the decommissioning of the MAV Project; these payments shall increase annually at 2.5%, and may be allocated/invested at the discretion of Monhegan (p. 2)
    – Pay 4% of gross revenues generated by the project from any renewable energy credits to a designated energy/broadband fund for the benefit of MPPD and Monhegan; subject to a $50,000 annual cap for the first 10 years of the project (p. 3)
    – Pay 5% of gross licensing royalty revenues received by UM from projects utilizing UMaine Volturn US technology to Monhegan (p. 3)
    Benefits - Other:
    – The University of Maine will provide technical assistance to get grant funding for a fully functional broadband network (p. 2)
    – Will not develop, construct, or operate any commercial grid-scale offshore wind energy project within 15 nautical miles of the boundaries of Monhegan Island (p. 3)
    – Provide at least 0.25 full-time equivalent personnel to support Monhegan and MPPD on community needs projects (p. 4)
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