Grantee Profile

Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities

Grants to Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities

  • $90,000Active Strategy

    2012 (Duration 3 years)

    CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA — The Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities works to strengthen foundation leadership at the intersection of regional and community economic development, urban planning, and environmental sustainability. This grant renews the Foundation's membership in the Funders' Network for the next three years and provides general operating support for its activities: staffing funder working groups on issues that are relevant to Foundation strategy (e.g., Green Buildings and Green Neighborhoods), publishing a regular online newsletter, producing topical working papers, running a leadership development fellowship, and mounting an annual conference that brings practitioners, policymakers, and funders together.

  • $50,000Active Strategy

    2010 (Inactive Grant)

    CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA — In support of general operations (over two years).

  • $30,000Active Strategy

    2009 (Inactive Grant)

    CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA — In support of general operations.

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities $170,000 between 2009 and 2012.