Regional Planning: Building Sustainable Land Use and Transportation Plans to Secure the Future of Silicon Valley and its Residents
The Silicon Valley Community Foundation has released a new Request for Proposals, "Regional Planning: Building Sustainable Land Use and Transportation Plans to Secure the Future of Silicon Valley and its Residents," for grants that focus on the ways in which local and regional land use and transportation plans can contribute to smart growth.
The foundation seeks to solicit the best thinking of nonprofit organizations, research institutions, and public agencies serving San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. The RFP focuses specifically on encouraging local smart-growth and transit-oriented development of the Peninsula and Silicon Valley.
To be eligible, applicants must be San Mateo and/or Santa Clara County-serving organizations. Organizations headquartered outside the two-county region must demonstrate significant service to the area. Applicants may be nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations or have a fiscal sponsor with a 501(c)(3) designation, public agencies, or other entities that have a designated charitable purpose.
The foundation seeks concrete, practical, and impactful project proposals that include both well-tested models which can be scaled up or expanded regionally while maintaining local relevance, and new pilots that, if successful, can be grown and replicated; benefit from collaborative work and bring public and private partners together with nonprofit organizations; demonstrate knowledge of the sector and its trends; identify a target population to be reached and justification for that focus; and provide clear benchmarks for measuring progress.
Successful applicants will receive grants between $50,000 and $100,000 for a minimum of one year.
