Grantee Profile
Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program
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Grants to Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program
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$250,000Active Strategy
2012 (Duration 2 years)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program will use this grant to explore the potential of the referendum process and related ballot measures to fund economy-shaping strategies to create jobs and increase state and regional competitiveness in times of extreme fiscal stress - strategies such as, for example, transformative infrastructure projects (capitalizing infrastructure or green banks, or financing multimodal freight improvements); advanced research and development in high-growth sectors, and expanding university research capacity; commercializing innovation via incubators and advanced manufacturing centers; redeveloping brownfields by creating manufacturing or urban innovation districts; and local government authority to create financing mechanisms for targeted economic development activities.
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$750,000Active Strategy
2009 (Inactive Grant)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — To promote the understanding of and policy guidance about economic changes underway in American cities and metropolitan areas (over two years).
The MacArthur Foundation awarded Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program $1,000,000 between 2009 and 2012.