MassDevelopment’s “Commonwealth Places” is a competitive opportunity to advance locally driven placemaking in downtown and neighborhood commercial districts in eligible communities throughout Massachusetts.
Donor Name: MassDevelopment
State: Massachusetts
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/03/2022
Size of the Grant: $50,000
Details:
Placemaking is a collaborative process through which people in communities work together to improve public spaces and maximize their shared value. The process facilitates creative patterns of use, and leverages the local physical, cultural, and social assets that define a place and support its ongoing evolution.
Funding Categories Awards will be made in two funding categories:
- Category 1: Seed Grants Impactful placemaking and/or place keeping is a community-driven process. Seed grants should be used to fund inclusive community engagement, visioning, and local capacity-building that will support future place making efforts. MassDevelopment will award individual grants of between$2,500 -$15,000 to projects within this funding category. Grants made within this category of work require a1:1 local match, either cash or in-kind. Eligible in-kind matches may include: volunteer work, staff time, relevant planning and coordinated activities by organizing entities, or any equipment, goods, or services contributed that would have been eligible costs under this funding category.All in-kind matches must be supported by documentation that can adequately demonstrate an overall equivalent value of the contribution(s)provided.
- Category 2: Implementation Grants MassDevelopment will award individual grants of between $5,000 and$50,000 for the implementation of locally-led place making projects. Grant funding must be matched on a 1:1 basis with crowd funding. In-kind contributions will not be counted towards the local match requirement for Implementation Grants.
Funding Information
- Seed Grants: $2,500 -$15,000
- Implementation Grants: $5,000 and $50,000
Eligibility Criteria
Grant funds for projects providing benefits to communities will be available to nonprofit organizations, and community groups, as well as to for-profit organizations under certain circumstances. Community projects that provide benefits to the private sector must benefit two or more unaffiliated private businesses.
For more information, visit MassDevelopment.
