Selected projects …
Cooperative Business Development
• Cooperative business consulting
• Conversion to co-op strategy
• Worker owner guidance
• Shared power governance training
Love My Neighbor!
Partnering with Neighborhood Allies for:
• Technical assistance to grassroots grant seekers
• Manage community-driven grant applications process in three communities
• Build community enterprise capacity
Access to Capital
Business consultant to micro-enterprise.
• Position businesses for financing
• Startups and community business
• Opportunity for groups with no previous access to capital
Advancing Entrepreneur- ship in the Mon Valley
Partnering with Pitt to remove barriers to entrepreneurship in disadvantaged communities in the Mon Valley
Moose Mode
• Owner’s Representative for New Sun Rising
• Manage due diligence, design, and construction
• 10,000 sf commercial
• Multiple tenant building
• Creative materials reuse
Develop the Pittsburgh Region’s First Major Green Jobs Program
• Manage program development and funding
• $600,000 US EPA
• $1.4 MM US DOL ETA
• 180 people trained
TRTCC Strategic Planning
Three Rivers Tibetan Cultural Center
• Facilitate strategic planning
• Guide growth and move to new home
Dublin Transformation
Strategic planning to position a bedroom community for public and private investment to make the transition to walkable, live/work/play urban fabric
Carrie Furnace: History Remade
Community Planning and Funding Strategy
• Inclusive mixed use development
• Facilitate steel industry museum
• $75,000 PA LIDA funding
• $400,000 federal grant
• $7.5 MM PA RACP funding
Photo: MCF, Inc.
