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.