The Urban Agenda grant program offers funding, on a competitive basis, to local partnerships to implement projects that are based on creative collaborative work models with the goal of advancing and achieving economic progress. The primary funding priorities of the program are1) Entrepreneurship, Small Business Development and Technical Assistance, 2) Workforce Development, Training Initiatives, and Job Pipelines, 3) Supporting Access to Opportunity (providing services to support workers e.g., childcare, housing stabilization, reentry services), and 4) Community Organizing and Leadership Development.
The Urban Agenda Grant Program is part of the Community One Stop for Growth, a single application portal and collaborative review process of community and economic development grant programs.