Member Update
CEDAM News, Resources and Events:
February 28,
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| Member News |
Development Company chooses community over profit in
Northern Michigan
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 A development company up north
could have put up houses on scenic property near the Bowers
Harbor Inn, north of Traverse City, and made it less scenic.
Instead, using rules established by the Michigan
Historic Preservation Network, the developers focused on
how the next generation will use this land. They are placing
community and geography over
profits.
- Audio clip from
Michigan Now's Chris McCarus - short audio
story - listen!
Detroit CDC
partners with University nonprofit to help neighborhood
plan
- Source:
Model D - online news source providing Detroit development
news
The Woodbridge Neighborhood Development
Corporation is wrapping up work
on its neighborhood development strategy in collaboration
with University of Detroit Mercy's Detroit Collaborative Design Center.
Environmental
firm uses science to find ways to finance
projects
CEDAM Member Corey Leon works for AKT
Peerless, an environmental firm with offices in Flint,
Farmington Hills, Detroit, and Lansing. The firm works
with New Market tax credits, brownfield tax increment
financing, and many other tools to make a project
work.
CEDAM
Member's work recognized in "Places to Move"
recognition
Southwest Solutions is a CDC that
focuses on Southwest Detroit - a neighborhood recently
recognized as a 'top place to move'
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| Regional Articles - Community
Economic Development |
| Metro Detroit
is inching closer to real mass
transit |
John Hertel, CEO of the Regional Transportation
Coordinating Council, who is spearheading the drive for
mass transit, says the cost of building is high, but the cost
of NOT building it is even higher. Hertel commented,
"There are dozens of pluses to mass transit... For every
government dollar spent on mass transit in the United
States in the last 20 years, private investment matches with
$8.50." A blueprint for a local transportation
system should be ready by the end of this year.
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| Capacity Building Resources for
nonprofits |
Housing Assistance Council has launced Rural
Homelessness program
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Contact 877-842-RHCB or RHCBinfo@ruralhome.org with questions
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The Housing Assistance Council has launched
the Rural
Homelessness Capacity Building program. It will offer
technical assistance, audio-web trainings, and online
information for organizations serving rural homeless
populations. Selected organizations working in high need
communities will also receive grants to pursue capacity
building activities. Assistance for CDCs - Legal help for vacant property
maintenance
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Source: Community Legal Resources e-briefs
 CDCs have the connections and
experience to help reclaim vacant property for their
communities, but before
entering into any agreement to assume responsibility for or
maintain a vacant property, CDCs should seek legal assistance.
Please contact Community Legal
Resources if your organization would like legal advice
regarding any form of vacant property management.
Local housing
policy resource now online
HousingPolicy.org, an online guide to state and
local housing policy, was launched January 29th - check it its
Toolbox and tips for effective Housing
Strategy
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| Funding
Opportunities |
 'Affordable Housing Built
Responsibly' Grants
DEADLINES: letter of intent, March 1;
full proposal, May 15.
The Home
Depot Foundation is supporting projects that result in
the production, preservation, or financing of housing units
addressing various environmental and energy concerns for low-
to moderate-income families. APPLY
NOW.
Rural Business
Opportunity Grants
DEADLINE: March 31,
2008
 Sponsors: U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA), Business and Cooperative
Programs, Rural Development
Description: The Rural Development State
Offices administer the Rural Business Opportunity Grants
program on behalf of USDA Rural Development at the State
level. The primary objective of the program is to improve the
economic conditions of rural areas. Assistance
provided to rural areas under this program may include
technical assistance for business development and economic
development planning.
Rural Economic Development Loans and
Grants
DEADLINES: March 31 &
June 30
USDA provides zero interest loans to local
utilities which they, in turn, pass through to local
businesses (ultimate recipients) for projects that will create
and retain employment in rural areas. Contact a USDA
Rural Development state office or Melvin Padgett, US Rural
Development, (202) 720-1495. Apply
today!
Section 538 Rental Housing
Guarantee
DEADLINE: Applications received by
April 25 will be processed first; continued acceptance while
funds available.
The Rural Housing Programs guarantees loans
under the Rural Rental Housing Guaranteed loan program for
development of multi-family housing facilities in rural areas
of the United States. Loan guarantees are provided for
the construction, acquisition, or rehabilitation of rural
multi-family housing.
Contact C.B. Alonso,
(202) 720-1624 with questions.
Partnership for Change Sustainable
Communities
DEADLINE: April 30, 2008
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 Sponsors: Michigan
Townships Association, Michigan Municipal League, Michigan
Association of Planning and Michigan State University
Extension
 Description: Partnership for Change
Sustainable Communities is offering three levels of
project assistance, beginning with First-Steps Service
Grants, which will focus on the needs of local governments
just beginning to consider inter-jurisdictional cooperation in
land use planning. The second two levels, Small- and
Large-Scale Service Grants, will provide services for a
defined inter-jurisdictional land use planning, regulation or
resources objective.
Rural Capacity Building
Initiative
DEADLINE: Intermediary organizations can apply
by May 5, 2008.
The Rural Community
Development Initiative (RCDI) program provides technical
assistance and training funds to qualified intermediary
organizations to develop their capacity to undertake housing,
community facilities, and community and economic development
projects in rural areas.
Bank of America Foundation- Neighborhood
Excellence Initiative Awards
DEADLINE: June 27, 2008
 The Bank of America Charitable Foundation
has announced the fifth year of the Neighborhood
Excellence Initiative (NEI), its signature philanthropic
program. This year, NEI will be expanded to Detroit, Michigan,
bringing the program's reach to 45 communities around the
United States and England.
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| Events - chronological
order |
Salem Housing
CDC - Flint - Annual Meeting - Thursday, March
6
Celebrating "The
Art of Community" |
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 We invite you to an evening of community,
art, and celebration! Join us in sharing our story and
honoring people and organizations who make community
revitalization a true "art" form!
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When: Reception starting at 6pm, Annual
Meeting at 7pm
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What: Reception, Meeting and Awards
Celebration including a 50/50 raffle, art, wine &
cheese, Jazz by Flint's own Blue
Michaels
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Where: Red Ink Studios, 101 Burton Street
(next to Flint Farmers' Market)
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Cost: Tickets are $25.00 - to RSVP, call (810)
785-5340 ext. 33 or 25
Green Infrastructure Planning - East
Lansing - Thursday, March 6
From 5:30 to 9:00 pm, the Michigan Trails and
Greenways Alliance (MTGA) is holding a workshop designed
to educate and engage our community regarding green
infrastructure planning. Speakers will cover "The Science
Behind Green Infrastructure"; "Green Infrastructure Planning
for Dollars and Sense", and more.
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Free admission, dinner
included.
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East Lansing Hannah
Community Center, Upstairs Conference Room, 819 Abbott Rd.,
East Lansing.
For more information, call the MTGA at 517-485-6022 or
Tri-County Regional Planning Commission at 517-393-0342.
Legal Clinic on new IRS
requirements - Detroit - Friday, March 7
 The IRS has recently completed a
redesign of the Form 990 - the annual information return that
nonprofits have to file. On Friday, March 7, the Pfizer Legal
Division is presenting a national seminar that will walk you
through the new
requirements.
The seminar will be provided via
videoconferencing at Lawrence Tech University, Room T221,
10:30 AM until 3:30 PM.
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Registration is $10 and includes lunch. To
register, please contact Sarida Scott at 313-962-3171, ext.
227 or sscott@michiganlegal.org
Training:
Neighborhood Improvement Authority Act - How to Use Tax
Increment Financing in Your Neighborhood - Lansing -
Friday, March 7
Communities are now eligible to create
neighborhood improvement authorities as a result of the recent
passage of the Neighborhood Improvement Authority Act (PA 61
of 2007). It is the latest incarnation of using tax increment
financing (TIF) to promote economic growth in residential
districts in municipalities. The Michigan Municipal League is
presenting a half-day
training on how to use TIF for residential
neighborhoods.
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Check-in 9:00 a.m., Begin 9:30 a.m.; Adjourn
Noon
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Cost: Free to all League full member
communities; $50 for nonmembers if registration by
tomorrow, Feb. 29th
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Where: Michigan Municipal League Capital
Office, 208 N. Capitol Ave, 1st Floor,
Lansing
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Call MML at 517-485-1314 with any
questions
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Land Use Lunch - Lansing - Friday,
March 7
 The First Friday Land Use Lunch Series, a
project of the Mid-Michigan
Environmental Action Council, Land Use Committee, is
hosting the Ingham County Land Bank on March 7th. Eric
Schertzing, Ingham County Treasurer, will discuss how
land banking is "A Tool for Rebuilding
Cities."
Glazer's "A New Agenda for a New
Michigan" - Jackson - Monday, March 10
The Jackson Citizens for Economic Growth in
cooperation with The Enterprise Group and The Greater Jackson
Chamber of Commerce is hosting Lou Glazer, co-founder of
Michigan Future, Inc. at the Community Hall, Ella Sharp, 6:30
PM
Mr. Glazer currently is heading
efforts to:
- launch a high school designed to
connect students to good paying careers in the 21st Century
automotive industry;
- launch an employer-centered system
for reducing chronic unemployment in Detroit,
- develop an action plan for
revitalizing Michigan's central cities;
- and develop a new agenda for a new
economy in Michigan.
As usual,
there are no fees for this presentation. However, please
RSVP for your attendance by email to growjackson@hotmail.com or (517) 782-3681.
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| Action Item - Award
Nominations |
Applications
Invited for MetLife Foundation Community-Police Partnership
*Awards Application Deadline: TOMORROW
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MetLife Foundation and Local Initiatives Support Corporation
(LISC) |
MetLife and LISC seek to identify
and honor partnerships that exhibit tangible accomplishments
in their efforts to advance the process, outcome, and/or
evaluation of potent police-community collaborations. APPLY
TODAY!
There are two award
categories:
1) Neighborhood Revitalization
Awards: Six monetary awards ranging from $10,000 to
$25,000 each will recognize exemplary collaboration between
community groups and police that yields crime reduction as
well as economic development outcomes.
2) Special Strategy Awards: Five
monetary awards of $15,000 each will recognize exemplary
collaboration between community groups and police that yield
significant public safety outcomes in one or more of the
following areas: Applied Technology; Aesthetics and Greenspace
Improvement; Diversity Inclusion & Integration; Drug
Market Disruption; Gang Prevention & Youth Safety; Seniors
& Safety; and School
Safety.
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