Overview of the Federal Community Revitalization Policy Agenda:
 Sustainable Communities, Promise Neighborhoods, Choice Neighborhoods,
the Healthy Food Financing Initiative and the Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative

Transforming communities and improving neighborhoods means finding solutions that holistically address housing, transportation, access to healthy food, the environment, health, education and more.  In this webinar with Citi Community Development partner, PolicyLink, get an overview of how organizations can leverage federal policy and investments across multiple agencies to build communities of opportunity in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.   

PolicyLink has been at the forefront of the development of collaborative strategies that leverage diverse federal agencies to co-invest in communities via an equitable development lens.  Since 2009, the Obama Administration has been realigning federal investments to more comprehensively address persistent and concentrated poverty in a way that invests the resources of multiple agencies into joint initiatives in places. These include:

• The Partnership for Sustainable Communities - a partnership between the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Department of Transportation, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
• New investments in Promise Neighborhoods - a partnership between the United States Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Education)
• Choice Neighborhoods  - a partnership between the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Department of Education, and the U. S.  Department of Health and Human Services
• The Healthy Food Financing Initiative - a partnership between the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the  U.S. Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• The Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative - at the White House Office of Urban Affairs). 

This webinar will review the important opportunities of these programs and highlight how your communities can begin to leverage the hundreds of million dollars invested annually to build communities of opportunity in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.

Citi Community Development Moderator:
Sandy Fernandez, Vice President, National Initiatives  

PolicyLink Presenters:
Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder and CEO
Rebecca Flournoy, Associate Director
Kalima Rose, Senior Director, Center for Infrastructure Equity  
Michael McAfee, Director, Promise Neighborhoods Institute