Community Building Grant

Community Building Grant

Funder: Impact Harrisburg

Geographic Scope: City of Harrisburg, PA

Background: Impact Harrisburg is a nonprofit created in 2014 to help steer the capital city's recovery from near-bankruptcy.

Funding Focus Areas

Projects must demonstrate impact in at least one of the following areas:
• Improving operational efficiency, safety and livability of the City
• Improving a community or neighborhood by making it more livable or viable, providing benefit to principally low-and moderate-income people, or removing/eliminating slums or blighted areas
• Building the Tax Base by adding to real estate, redevelopment of non-taxpaying blighted properties into tax-paying properties
• Job Creation by creating permanent jobs in the City and employing City residents to the extent possible
• Quality of Life by improving operational efficiency, safety and livability
• Revenue Generation by increasing earned income or other taxes paid directly to the City

Guiding Principles

• Leverage of other funds both private and public
• Accountability of fund dispensation and management
• Funding of projects not operations
• Transparency through fair and rational scoring process
• Producing measurable outcomes
• Respect, preserve and grow the culture of Harrisburg's neighborhoods
• Inclusion: increasing opportunities and capacity for minority and other disadvantaged groups

Recent Grant Examples

Recent grants in this category included:
• $350,000 to Community First Fund for loan program to support minority and small-business owners
• $350,000 to Tri-County Housing Development Corp. for work in the Allison Hill area
• $250,000 to Gamut Theatre for second phase of North Fourth Street building project
• $204,759 to Tri County Community Action for facade improvement projects
• $138,592 to East Shore YMCA for facade improvement projects
• $100,000 to Paxton Street Home Benevolent Society for senior-living facility
• $81,369 to Harrisburg River Rescue for facility expansion

Contact Information

Phone: 717-979-2566

Address: 709 Green Street, Harrisburg, PA 17102

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 61403, Harrisburg, PA 17106-1403