1. COMPLETE STREETS FUNDING AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE EVERY STEP OF THE WAY
Chris Sandvig
Director of Policy
Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group
Jesabel Rivera-Guerra
Director of Community Health
American Heart Association

2. FUNDING AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE EVERY STEP OF THE WAY
COMPLETE STREETS
FUNDING AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE EVERY STEP OF THE WAY
Complete Streets
EDUCATION & AWARENESS
Educating the community is always important to get buy-in. There are grants and resources to facilitate the tasks.
PARTNERSHIPS
Funding available comes in the form of grants. Make sure you partner with another entity that can provide that type of technical assistance.
BUILDING
COMPLETE STREETS
Resources are available to build complete streets and other grants that give you additional credits for having one.
POLICY DEVELOPMENT & PASSAGE
You don’t need to start from scratch. There are examples and templates that will best align with your needs and community wants. As well as additional technical support.
COMMUNICATION
Transportation and planning related agencies and professionals need to know about your efforts for a smooth implementation. Partner with them!
Jesabel

3. PARTNERSHIPS FOR GRANT MAKING
COMPLETE STREETS
FUNDING AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE EVERY STEP OF THE WAY
PARTNERSHIPS FOR GRANT MAKING
Southwest Regional Office, Dept. of Community & Economic Development (DCED)
Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission (SPS)
Allegheny County Economic Development (ACED)
Bike Pittsburgh
Walk Works
PCRG
Jesabel

4. FUNDING AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE EVERY STEP OF THE WAY
COMPLETE STREETS
FUNDING AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE EVERY STEP OF THE WAY
RESOURCE EXAMPLE
EDUCATION & AWARENESS
Community Engagement Opportunities
Voices for Healthy Kids
CDC and Neighborhood Groups
AARP
Heart Association - postcards, letters,
Local Nonprofits - BikePGH, PCRG
Schools
Voices For Healthy Kids
Strategic Campaign Funds Open RFA opportunity aims to fund strategic issue advocacy campaigns focused on helping kids grow up at a healthy weight through state, local, and tribal public policy campaigns. Awards of up to $90,000 are available.
Jesabel

5. POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND PASSAGE
COMPLETE STREETS
FUNDING AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE EVERY STEP OF THE WAY
POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND PASSAGE
National Complete Streets Coalition
AARP Complete Streets and Vision Zero Archive
Plan4Health Complete Streets Resources (American Planning Assn)
American Heart Association Government Relations
Implementation Tools for Complete Streets - Lancaster County, PA
Chris

6. FUNDING AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE EVERY STEP OF THE WAY
COMPLETE STREETS
FUNDING AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE EVERY STEP OF THE WAY
COMMUNICATIONS
Press Releases
Live Well Allegheny
Who needs to be aware of it
Engineers consultants
PennDot etc.
Developers
Chris

7. FUNDING AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE EVERY STEP OF THE WAY
COMPLETE STREETS
FUNDING AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE EVERY STEP OF THE WAY
BUILDING COMPLETE STREETS – Example of grants available
Livability through Smart Transportation (SMART)
Type: Reimbursement
Match: 20%
Eligible Uses:
Bicycle and Pedestrian facilities
Corridor management/congestion reduction
Intermodal/TOD
Land use and transportation linkage
Planning and redevelopment
Road improvements
Streetscapes/traffic calming
Available Funding: $1.6 million/year, region-wide. Projects selected by competitive application process, every two years
Programmatic: projects must be in within urbanized area and consistent with regional long range transportation plan.
Eligible Applicants: Nonprofit organizations are not eligible as direct recipients of funds, but may partner with SPC member county governments and the City of Pittsburgh to submit candidate projects
Chris

8. COMPLETE STREETS
Chris

9. COMPLETE STREETS FUNDING AND RESOURCES AVAILABLE EVERY STEP OF THE WAY
Chris Sandvig
Director of Policy
Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group
Jesabel Rivera-Guerra
Director of Community Health
American Heart Association