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The Knight Foundation awarded three organizations working in the Overtown area of Miami over $8.5 million to address economic development, housing, cultural institutions, organizational capacity building, design, transportation, infrastructure, recreation, and open space issues.
Translation Paper
12 Pages
2001
Edward Thompson, Jr. of American Farmland Trust explains how the sustainability of American agriculture is being compromised as more and more land is lost to sprawling development. This loss accelerates as public policies favor development over agriculture. Successful protection programs are hybrids that combine substantial financial incentives to landowners with effective land use regulation.
The William Penn Foundation designed a new program structure, in part, to facilitate a more coordinated, cross-discipline approach to the Foundation's smart growth grantmaking.