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Community gardens that produce fruits, herbs and vegetables for low-income communities. Vibrant and sustainable public spaces brought to life by transforming abandoned roadways, under-used waterfronts — and even an old golf course. Affordable housing that is better equipped to weather extreme storms and climate-related disasters, and homeowners equipped with the skills to ensure their homes are energy efficient and free of highly toxic lead.

These are just a few of the projects that have received funding through Partners for Places, a matching grant program that improves U.S. and Canadian communities by building partnerships between local government leaders, frontline communities, and place-based funders. National funders invest in local projects developed through these partnerships to advance efforts to create communities that are sustainable, prosperous and just.

These sustainability efforts take place from coast to coast, in communities both large and small, and focus largely on empowering and engaging low-income neighborhoods.

Collaboration and partnership are at the heart of the Partners for Places program. Since 2012, the matching grant program has helped foster dozens of new partnerships between local government sustainability leaders and place-based funders across the U.S. and Canada — relationships that often continue long after the original Partners for Places project has been completed.

About Partners for Places

Partners for Places aims to enhance local capacity to build equitable and sustainable communities in the United States and Canada.
These one-to-one matching awards support the planning and implementing of urban sustainability and green stormwater infrastructure projects.

To date, Partners for Places has awarded $10.9 million across North America in this successful matching grant program, leading to more than $21.6 million in investments.

TFN and the Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN) launched the Local Sustainability Matching Fund in 2012. Now called Partners for Places, the program is managed by TFN  and supported by The JPB FoundationThe Kendeda FundThe Kresge Foundation, and the Pisces Foundation.

These one-to-one matching awards provide partnership investments between $45,000 and $150,000 for one-year projects, or between $75,000 and $180,000 for two-year projects, with one or more local foundations required to provide at least a 50% matching grant.

Racial Equity and Frontline Communities

Through Round 16, the primary partners were local governments and local foundations. The Partners for Places 2018-2023 strategy leads with racial equity and a sharper focus on how best to advance equitable and sustainable communities. Starting in Round 17, the primary partners also include local frontline community groups. This collaborative governance model is intended to more deeply embed the values and practice of racial equity into local community decision-making processes.

What is a frontline community? Partners for Places defines frontline communities as those most impacted by systems of oppression and injustice, economic disadvantage, and environmental harm.

Federal Funding Assistance

In July 2023, Partners for Places issued a targeted invitation to apply to 23 grantee partnerships that had been funded through grant rounds 17-19 over the past three years, later extended to current grantees as well. The Invitation aims to support prior grantees to connect and align around an application for federal infrastructure funding that advances equitable climate action and/or green stormwater infrastructure projects. The P4P support (of up to $30,000) will help strengthen the relationships between applying collaborative partners and provide direct assistance as they coalesce around and develop a federal funding proposal together. The nine grants awarded to date totaling $267,700 in awards are listed here. These grants are intended to provide rapid assistance and do not require a local match.

Grant Opportunities

Round 21 of Partners for Places matching grants closed Feb. 27. Grantees will be notified in the Spring.

For questions about upcoming grant opportunities, contact Ashley Quintana at ashley@fundersnetwork.org.

Grants Map

Partners for Places has helped fund sustainability projects and foster connections in dozens of communities across the U.S. and Canada. Click on each tagged location to learn about projects in that city or region. (Completed projects will include a link to that project’s profile on the Partners for Places Idea Bank, including lessons learned and additional resources.)

Pennsylvania

Lancaster | $30,000 | Round 11
Philadelphia | $25,000 | Round 5
Philadelphia | $25,000 | Round 11
Philadelphia | $75,000 | Round 15
Lancaster | $75,000 | Round 17
Pittsburgh | $10,000 | P4P Mini Grants Round 3
Erie | $10,000 | P4P Mini Grants Round 4

Michigan

Benton Harbor | $74,740 | Round 20
Ann Arbor | $99,252 | Round 16
Detroit | $25,000 | Round 9
Grand Rapids | $51250 | Round 11
Detroit | $100,000 | Round 15
Ann Arbor | $55,000 | Round 3
Holland | $65,000 | Round 4
Grand Rapids | $10,000 | P4P Mini Grants Round 2
Westland | $10,000 | P4P Mini Grants Round 3
Westland | $10,000 | P4P Mini Grants Round 4
Ann Arbor | $15,200 | P4P Mini Grants Round 5
Benton Harbor | $15,000 | P4P Mini Grants Round 5

Wisconsin

Milwaukee | $75,000 | Round 8
Milwaukee | $75,000 | Round 5
Milwaukee | $45,000 | Round 2
Milwaukee | $75,000 | Round 14
Madison | $25,000 | Round 6
Appleton | $60,000 | Round 1
Racine | $8,557 | P4P Mini Grants Round 1

Georgia

Atlanta | $35,000 | Round 15
Gwinette County | $10,000 | P4P Mini Grants Round 4

Texas

Harris County| $150,000 | Round 20
Waco| $150,000 | Round 20
Austin | $100,000 | Round 7
Waco | $10,000 | P4P Mini Grants Round 4
Harris County | $20,000 | P4P Mini Grants Round 5

Maryland

Baltimore | $50,000 | P4P Round 3
Baltimore | $75,000 | P4P Round 7
Baltimore | $35,000 | Equity Initiative Round 1
Baltimore County | $35,000 | P4P Round 19

Oregon

Bend | $25,000 | P4P Round 2
Bend | $50,000 | P4P Round 11
Bend | $50,000 | P4P Round 13
Portland | $150,000 | P4P Round 13
Portland | $50,000 | P4P Round 9
Multnomah County | $75,000 | P4P Round 17
Multnomah County | $50,000 | P4P Round 19

California

Marin County | $180,000 | P4P Round 20
San Diego | $120,000 | P4P Round 20
Chula Vista | $67,500 | P4P Round 6
Berkley | $30,000 | Equity Initiative Round 2
Berkley | $35,000 | P4P Round 2
San Diego | $73,790 | P4P Round 14
Oakland | $40,000 | P4P Round 3
Berkley | $50,000 | P4P Round 3
Los Angeles | $35,000 | P4P Round 11
Los Angeles | $75,000 | P4P Round 8
San Francisco | $150,000 | P4P Round 5
San Diego | $56,250 | P4P Round 4
Los Angeles County | $87,500 | P4P Round 12
Santa Cruz | $10,000 | P4P Mini Grants Round 4

New York

Ithica | $51,970 | P4P Round 8
Syracuse | $25,000 | P4P Round 2
Binghampton | $50,000 | P4P Round 2
Buffalo | $85,000 | P4P Round 4
Yonkers & New Rochelle | $25,000 | P4P Round 2
Rochester | $76,425 | P4P Round 18

Virginia

Charlottesville | $180,000 | Round 20
Blacksburg | $83,750 | P4P Round 6
Charlottesville | $150,000 | P4P Round 17
Richmond | $25,000 | P4P Round 18
Richmond | $10,000 | P4P Mini Grants Round 2
Charlottesville | $10,000 | P4P Mini Grants Round 4
Richmond | $10,000 | P4P Mini Grants Round 4

Indiana

Indianapolis | $45,000 | P4P Round 4
Bloomington | $34,936 | P4P Round 7
Indianapolis | $50,000 | P4P Round 7
Indianapolis | $146,711 | P4P Round 12
Gary | $25,000 | P4P Round 17

Massachusetts

Chelsea | $150,000 | P4P Round 20
Northampton | $25,000 | P4P Round 7
Boston | $65,000 | P4P Round 4
New Bedford | $25,000 | P4P Round 13
  • Resilient Homes Initiative
Boston | $50,000 | P4P Round 15
New Bedford | $39,000 | P4P Round 6
Essex County | $8,000 | P4P Mini Grants Round 3

Connecticut

Stamford | $75,000 | P4P Round 6
Bridgeport | $72,500 | P4P Round 15
  • Green Infrastructure as a Catalyst for Community Transformation
Hartford | $65,000 | P4P Round 13
Hartford | $125,000 | P4P Round 9
New Haven | $40,000 | P4P Round 15
Bridgeport | $50,000 | P4P Round 3
Bridgeport | $45,138 | P4P Round 8
Bridgeport | $20,000 | P4P Mini Grants Round 5

Florida

Miami | $25,000 | P4P Round 12
Sarasota County | $61,500 | P4P Round 3
Sarasota City & County | $150,000 | P4P Round 13
Broward County | $25,000 | P4P Round 10
Miami-Dade | $50,000 | P4P Round 9
Miami-Dade | $50,000 | P4P Round 5
Miami-Dade | $65,000 | P4P Round 1
Miami-Dade County | $25,000 | P4P Round 17

Vermont

Burlington | $33,264 | P4P Round 16
Burlington | $30,000 | P4P Round 8

North Carolina

Cary | $25,000 | P4P Round 11
Charlotte | $75,000 | Equity Initiative Round 2

Tennessee

Knoxville | $74,000 | Equity Initiative Round 1
Chattanooga | $40,000 | P4P Round 9
Chattanooga | $30,000 | P4P Round 5
Memphis | $75,000 | P4P Round 4
Chattanooga | $65,000 | P4P Round 2
Knoxville | $74,000 | Equity Initiative Round 1
Chattanooga | $25,000 | P4P Round 18
Knoxville | $9,257 | P4P Mini Grants Round1
Memphis and Shelby counties | $7,017 | P4P Mini Grants Round 1

Illinois

Evanston | $125,000 | Equity Initiative Round 14
Chicago | $75,000 | Equity Initiative Round 10
Chicago | $75,000 | Equity Initiative Round 16
Oak Park | $49,250 | Round 2
Chicago | $100,000 | P4P Round 17
Chicago | $7,500 | P4P Mini Grants Round 1
Cook County | $97,909 | P4P Round 19

Ohio

Cuyahoga County| $180,000 | P4P Round 20
Cleveland | $50,000 | P4P Round 14
Cleveland | $60,000 | P4P Round 4
Cleveland | $35,000 | P4P Round 7
Toledo | $25,000 | P4P Round 5
Cincinnati | $35,000 | P4P Round 1
Cleveland | $60,000 | Equity Initiative Round 2
Cincinnati | $115,000 | P4P Round 11
Cincinnati | $105,000 | P4P Round 6
Cleveland | $75,000 | P4P Round 18

Missouri

St. Louis | $50,000 | P4P Round 2
Columbia | $67,000 | P4P Round 5
Columbia | $100,000 | P4P Round 10
  • Using Trees as Green Infrastructure for the 3 E's
St. Louis | $51,250 | P4P Round 11
Springfield | $10,000 | P4P Mini Grants Round 4
Kansas City | $20,000 | P4P Mini Grants Round 5

Kansas

Douglas County | $26,000 | P4P Round 16

Iowa

Dubuque | $55,000 | P4P Round 3
  • Racial Equity at the Center of Climate Adaptation Decision Making
Dubuque | $50,000 | Equity Initiative Round 2
Dubuque | $8,500 | P4P Mini Grants Round 2

Hawaii

Honolulu | $75,000 | P4P Round 12
Maui County | $8,857 | P4P Mini Grants Round 1
Kaua'i County | $85,000 | P4P Round 19

Alaska

Juneau | $25,000 | P4P Round 3
Anchorage | $75,000 | P4P Round 18

New Mexico

Las Cruces | $51,981 | Equity Initiative Round 1
Las Cruces | $25,000 | P4P Round 11
Albuquerque | $9,500 | P4P Mini Grants Round 2
Santa Fe | $10,000 | P4P Mini Grants Round 2

Nebraska

Lincoln | $75,000 | P4P Round 10

Kentucky

Louisville | $75,000 | P4P Round 7
Louisville | $60,000 | P4P Round 3
Louisville | $42,000 | P4P Round 17

Minnesota

Minneapolis | $75,000 | P4P Round 9
Minneapolis | $75,000 | Equity Initiative Round 2
Duluth | $9,257 | P4P Mini Grants Round 1
Duluth | $75,000 | P4P Round 19

Montana

Missoula | $45,000 | P4P Round 7
Missoula | $10,000 | P4P Mini Grants Round 3

Louisiana

New Orleans | $45,000 | P4P Round 11
New Orleans | $39,000 | P4P Round 7
New Orleans | $60,000 | P4P Round 17
New Orleans | $10,000 | P4P Mini Grants Round 4

New Jersey

Newark | $60,000 | P4P Round 10
Newark | $110,000 | P4P Round 14
Princeton | $30,000 | P4P Round 17

Rhode Island

Newport | $54,240 | P4P Round 16
Providence | $50,000 | Equity Initiative Round 1
Providence | $55,000 | Equity Initiative Round 2
Providence | $50,000 | P4P Round 2
Providence | $55,000 | P4P Round 4

Utah

Salt Lake City | $31,500 | Round 11
Salt Lake City | $25,000 | Round 4
Park City | $25,000 | Round 16
Salt Lake City | $25,000 | Round 1

Washington

Seattle | $180,000 | P4P Round 20
Seattle | $75,000 | P4P Round 6
Seattle | $75,000 | P4P Round 9
Tacoma | $45,000 | P4P Round 10
Tacoma | $75,000 | P4P Round 5

Arizona

Flagstaff| $70,000| P4P Round 20
Tuscon | $74,862 | P4P Round 9
Flagstaff | $20,000 | P4P Mini Grants Round 5

Washington, D.C.

D.C. | $60,000 | Equity Initiative Round 2

Colorado

Boulder | $50,000 | P4P Round 10
Denver | $74,959 | P4P Round 13
Boulder Count, City of Boulder and City of Longmont | $108,000 | P4P Round 18
Boulder County and Cities of Boulder and Longmont | $8,000 | P4P Mini Grants Round 2
Fort Collins | $10,000 | P4P Mini Grants Round 3

Alberta

Edmonton | $59,883 | Round 12

Ontario

Hamilton | $25,000 | Round 5

British Columbia

Vancouver | $50,000 | Round 6

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Mini Grants

These grants are available to help local governments, local foundations, and frontline community-led groups build relationships, align around project ideas, and ideally develop a proposal that centers racial equity in water, sustainability, and/or climate action work.

Partners for Places Mini Grants are designed to strengthen the relationship between the three partners in order to aid in the development of a full and jointly developed Partners for Places matching grant proposal.

Partners for Places Mini Grants: Round 1

Partners for Places Mini Grants: Round 2

Partners for Places Mini Grants: Round 3

Partners for Places Mini Grants: Round 4

Partners for Places Mini Grants: Round 5

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Governance Committee

Dana Bourland

DeAngelo Bowden

Jill Fuglister

(Co-chair) & PLACES Alum
Meyer Memorial Trust

Arturo Garcia-Costas

Lee Hayes Byron

Sustainability Director,
Sarasota County, Fla. (Co-chair)

Sheena Solomon

PLACES Alum
Gifford Foundation

Ann Fowler Wallace

The Funders Network

Learn More

For more information about the Partners for Places matching grant program, please contact TFN Program Manager Ashley Quintana at ashley@fundersnetwork.org or (305) 667-6350 ext. 201.

“Communities across the U.S. and Canada are coming together to tackle the impacts of climate change with innovative projects that are making a difference in people’s lives, especially those in greatest need. These partnerships foster long-term relationships that in turn help communities become more sustainable, equitable and prosperous places.”

Diane Ives
The Kendeda Fund and co-chair of the Partners for Places Governance Committee.