community benefits
What are community benefits? Learn more in this quick webinar!
Community benefits include a range of legal agreements between a community coalition and a Company that outlines how a development or business will benefit and protect the community in concrete and tangible ways, and can foster accountability and transparency.
community benefits guide
This guide is for community advocates and leaders who want to bring community benefits - through community benefit agreements, plans, or ordinances - to their communities. We hope this guide can help provide some tools, templates, and examples that your community can adapt and modify.
This guide was created in partnership with Riverwise and many partners in Beaver County, Pennsylvania and the Ohio River Valley.
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Community Benefits Menu
Community Benefits Guide Table of Contents
Community Questions Before Joining an Advisory Board or Committee
Agendas for Community Education + Meetings:
General Information:
Legal Templates + Information
Community Benefit Agreement Template
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ReImagine Appalachia Community Benefit Resource Bank: https://reimagineappalachia.org/cba-summit/
The People’s Justice40+ Community Benefit Plan: Step-by-Step Guide: https://emeraldcities.org/j40playbook/
Community Benefits Agreements Offer Meaningful Opportunities to Include Voters’ Voices in Development: https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2022/7/5/community-benefits-agreements-offer-meaningful-opportunities-to-include-voters-voices-in-development
World Resources Institute Case Studies: Through Benefits-Sharing Agreements, Clean Energy Projects Can Earn Community Trust
World Resources Institute Database of Community Benefits Frameworks Across the US
Columbia Law School:Community Benefits Agreements Database
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World Resources Institute: Detroit’s Community Benefits Ordinance: Lessons Learned About the Community Engagement Process and Its Outcomes
World Resources Institute: Community Benefits Snapshot: Stellantis Community Benefits Agreement (Negotiated under Detroit’s Community Benefits Ordinance)
Equitable Detroit Coalition + Detroit’s People Platform: Fighting for Equity in Development - The Story of Detroit’s Community Benefits Ordinance
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CBAs:
The Royals’ new Community Benefits Agreement lacks one important element: the community benefits
Colorado Electric Transmission Authority Principles of Community Engagement
WRI Community Benefits Snapshot: North Plains Connector Transmission Line Community Engagement and Benefits
WRI Community Benefits Snapshot: Block Island Wind Farm Community Benefits Agreement
WRI Community Benefits Snapshot: SOO Green Transmission Line Community Engagement and Benefits
WRI Community Benefits Snapshot: New Flyer Community Benefits Agreement
WRI Community Benefits Snapshot: Tallgrass-Bold Alliance CO2 Pipeline Community Benefits Agreement
CBOs:
WRI Community Benefits Snapshot: Stellantis Community Benefits Agreement (Negotiated under Detroit’s Community Benefits Ordinance)
Good Neighbor Agreements:
WRI Community Benefits Snapshot: Stillwater Good Neighbor Agreement
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