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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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    New Flyer
    Framework Type: Community Benefits Agreement
    Sector: Manufacturing
    Project Summary: New Flyer of America Inc. operates two electric bus manufacturing plants in Anniston, Alabama and Ontario, California.
    Parties to framework: Greater Birmingham Ministries (GBM); Jobs to Move America (JMA); New Flyer of America Inc.
    State: Alabama
    Year Signed: 2022
    Benefits included:
    • Education
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Health and safety
    • Other
    • Other financial support
    Benefits - Education:
    – Training will provide English as a second language learning opportunities for its workers (p. 4)
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Pre-Apprenticeship program (p. 4)
    – Increase number of historically disadvantaged local people in management positions (p. 5)
    – Technical training program (pre-employment and on-the-job training) (p. 5)
    – Hire (including offers) at least 45% of new hires and award at least 20% of promotions at each Plant from historically disadvantaged groups (p. 5)
    – Create opportunity/pipeline for local high school students to become managers (p. 6)
    – Increase hiring of veterans (p. 6)
    Benefits - Health and safety:
    – Maintain its current Joint Management and Employee Safety and Health Committee (“Committee”) in the Anniston Plant, after 6 months the coalition members can select 3 employee members of the committee (p. 7)
    – Allow employees to attend safety training sessions conducted by a nonprofit organization for one hour twice per calendar year on-site at each plant (p. 8)
    Benefits - Other:
    – Will allow non-management employees to attend a semi-annual debt clinic on site (p. 6)
    – Ensure one food truck on site for employees (p. 6)
    – Recognize various heritage months (p. 7)
    – Provide a physical board on site for partners to provide info to employees (p. 7)
    – Additional complaint system to report harassment or discrimination (p. 8)
    – Establishes mediation if parties do not agree and lays out process for arbitration if parties cannot agree (p. 10)
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    New London Offshore Wind
    Framework Type: Host Community Agreement
    Sector: Wind
    Project Summary: North East Offshore LLC seeks to improve a harbor in order to construct offshore wind energy facilities off the coast of New London, Connecticut.
    Parties to framework: City of New London, Connecticut; North East Offshore, LLC
    State: Connecticut
    Year Signed: 2021
    Benefits included:
    • Other financial support
    Benefits - Financial support:
    – Shall pay to the host community $750,000 annually for 7 years during the construction of the Revolution Wind, South Fork Wind and Sunrise Wind projects. This payment may be up to $1.5 million annually if a certain threshold of MW power is produced. If the developer wins other Connecticut offshore wind procurement during those 7 years and work continues at the port, the annual payment will extend to 10 years (p. 5)
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    North Hollywood Mixed-Use Redevelopment Project
    Framework Type: Community Benefits Agreement
    Sector: Redevelopment/Construction
    Project Summary: SL NO HO LLC seeks to redevelop a mixed use property in Los Angeles, California.
    Parties to framework: SL NO HO LLC; Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles; Valley Jobs Coalition; Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy
    State: California
    Year Signed: 2001
    Benefits included:
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Local infrastructure and housing
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Create a First Source Hiring Program to provide job training to low-income individuals and refer applicants to employers. (p. 2)
    – Creation of a First Source Referral System for which the Valley Jobs Coalition and the Valley Economic Development Center will raise funds to staff the program and the developer will provide 500 square feet of publicly accessible, rent-free space for its office (p. 2)
    – Provide $10,000 as seed money for a job training program at the site (p. 3)
    – Make all reasonable efforts to maximize living wage jobs at the site; at least 75% of the jobs will be living wage jobs, with an exception for small businesses (p. 3)
    Benefits - Local infrastructure and housing:
    – Create an on-site location for child care and to enter into a lease agreement with a child care provider. (p. 2)
    Benefits - Health and safety:
    – Attempt to create a Health Insurance Trust Fund to provide Tenants with a low-cost method of providing employees with basic health insurance (p. 5)
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    Oakland Army Base Project
    Framework Type: Project Labor Agreement
    Sector: Redevelopment/Construction
    Project Summary: Prologis CCIG Oakland Global LLC seeks to redevelop a site in Oakland, California.
    Parties to framework: City of Oakland; Prologis CCIG Oakland Global LLC
    State: California
    Year Signed: 2012
    Benefits included:
    • Employment and Workforce training
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Use best efforts to fill non-management jobs with residents and members of disadvantaged communities (p. 13)
    – Must have 50% of employees be residents and 25% be from disadvantaged communities (p. 15)
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    Park East Redevelopment
    Framework Type: Compact
    Sector: Redevelopment/Construction
    Project Summary: Milwaukee County seeks to sell land in order to have it redeveloped.
    Parties to framework: Milwaukee County; Wisconsin Supervisors Johnson, Cogg-Jones, Broderick, Dimitijevic, Clark, West, White, Holloway, Weishan, Quindel, Debruin
    State: Wisconsin
    Year Signed: 2004
    Benefits included:
    • Employment and Workforce training
    • Local infrastructure and housing
    • Environmental and climate
    Benefits - Employment and workforce training:
    – Hire one or more nonprofit community development agencies to assist in coordinating a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (p. 2)
    – Businesses and contractors must employ racial minorities consistent with their numbers in the county's workforce (p. 3)
    Benefits - Local infrastructure and housing:
    – Create the Community and Economic Development Fund (CED Fund) comprised of a series of programs designed to address 'gap' needs in the marketplace (p. 1)
    – At least 20% of total housing units constructed will be designated affordable housing (p. 2)
    Benefits - Environmental and climate:
    – Green space and green design will be required in all parcel proposals (p. 3)
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