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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Framework Type

Sector

State

Benefits Included

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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Maui County and Kahana Solar

Framework Type: Settlement Agreement

Sector: Solar

Project Summary: Kahana Solar LLC, through a power purchase agreement with Maui Electric Company, Limited, seeks to build and operate a solar photovoltaic and energy storage facility in West Maui, Hawaii.

Parties to framework: Maui Electric Company, Limited; State of Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Division of Consumer Advocacy; Kahana Solar, LLC; West Maui Preservation Association

State: Hawaii

Year Signed: 2021

Benefits included:

Other financial support

Benefits - Employment and workforce training:

– Project contractors are required to give preference to hiring qualified laborers from West Maui, Maui County, and then the State of Hawaii, in that order, before hiring non-resident laborers. (p. 6)

Benefits - Financial support:

– Commit a total of $1,375,000 which breaks down to $55,000 per year of project commercial operation for 25 years. Each year, $40,000 will be allocated at the discretion of Kahana Solar and $15,000 will be provided to the Hawaiian Community Foundation (p. 6)

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