By TFN Staff
Communities across the U.S. are poised for an unprecedented infusion of direct and programmatic funds through the American Rescue Plan (ARP), a historically ambitious $1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill intended to help the country rebound from the coronavirus pandemic and its ongoing economic impacts.
This cash infusion is desperately needed in communities where the pandemic has wrought economic havoc and worsened already stark inequities. But many cities — notably small and mid-sized municipalities — often lack the capacity to access federal dollars, navigate funding requirements, and build projects that create meaningful and equitable impacts.
How can funders help communities access and leverage these critical federal dollars to ensure the best outcomes for people and places?
Join TFN’s Inclusive Economies at 3 p.m. May 19 for a funder-only webinar, American Rescue Plan: How Funders Can Help Leverage Federal Dollars for Local Impact.
This webinar will highlight the role that funders can play as a support structure for the implementation of ARP funds in local communities. This includes the Coronavirus Local Fiscal Recovery Fund’s $350 billion for states, municipalities, counties, tribes, and territories, according to the National League of Cities, which has developed a scalable structure to empower cities large and small to create local impact through the ARP.
Please register here for this funder-only webinar by May 17 in order to receive login information.
Join us for a discussion with:
Jane Alexander
President & CEO, Community Foundation for Mississippi
Dr. Robert Blaine
Director, NLC’s Institute for Youth, Education and Families
Paula Sammons
Senior Program Officer, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Scot Spencer
Associate Director, Local Policy, The Annie E. Casey Foundation (moderator)
About TFN’s Inclusive Economies
TFN’s Inclusive Economies working group brings place-based funders and related partners from across the sector together to build working relationships, advancing understanding of practices and policies that lead to inclusive prosperity and taking joint action that drives the field forward. We apply a three-part focus — race, place and prosperity — to economic growth and development. A particular goal is connecting people and neighborhoods of color to employment and wealth-building opportunities through investment, systems change, and policy reform.For more information, please contact Hazel Paguaga at hazel@fundersnetwork.org.
“Des Moines Teachers Begin to Get Vaccine” by Phil Roeder is licensed under CC BY
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