CITY SEEKING INPUT FOR GRANT APPLICATION TO SUPPORT LOWER-INCOME RESIDENTS

The goals of the Working
Cities Challenge include:

• Supporting bold, promising approaches that have
  the potential to transform the lives of low-income residents and the
  communities in which they live;

• Building resilient, cross-sector
  (public-private-nonprofit), civic infrastructure that can tackle complex
  challenges facing smaller industrial cities;

• Moving beyond individual programs and projects
  to create a network of people, groups
  and institutions who either haven't worked together, or are working together in
  some new way, to solve a problem or deliver a service across multiple systems
  and issues;

• Driving private markets to work on behalf of
  low-income residents by blending public, private, and philanthropic capital and
  deploying it in catalytic investments;

• Accelerating and learning from promising work
  already underway; and

• Creating a successful model for New England and beyond.

As the City prepares to apply for this grant, and in
accordance with the program guidelines, we invite residents and business owners
to share their ideas with our team.  How can
we best improve the economic well being and quality of life in our community,
especially for lower income residents?  What
unique models, or partnerships, should we explore?

Please submit any of your ideas by April 10, 2013, even in
draft form, to:

Amanda Maher
Economic Development Specialist
Mayor's Office of Strategic Planning & Community Development
amaher@somervillema.gov

617-625-6600 x2528

For more information about the
grant or the application process, feel free to contact Amanda directly.