GRANTS PAID 2015 COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Causeway $600,000 Civic Innovation and Engagement Hub Chattanooga Area Food Bank $50,000 Expand Operating Capacity Chattanooga Area Food Bank $250,000 HarvestedHere Food Hub Chattanooga Area Food Bank $5,000 Education Programs for Local Farms Urban League of Chattanooga NextLevel Chattanoog Executive Entrepreneurship Program $25,000 Urban Leage of Chattanooga Marketing for job Fair and NextLevel Inaugural Class $3,200 Chattanooga Chamber Foundation $28,000 Workforce Data Mapping Co.Lab $200,000 Expanded Gig Accelerator Co.Lab $26,000 Maker Faire Co.Lab $9,000
Co.Starters Summit Co.Lab $250,000 Gig tank 365 Enterprise Center $10,000 Advanced Manufacturing Application Center Feasibility Study Enterprise Center $25,000 Tech Goes Home Enterprise Center $10,000 Annenberg Innovation Lab Think & Do Chattanooga Enterprise Community Partners $10,000 National Resource Network 2014 Peer Convening Girls Preparatory School $10,000 Mad, Bad & Dangerous Conference La Paz Chattanooga $10,000 Latino Community Survey LAUNCH Chattanooga $75,000 Support for Diversifying Entrepreneurial Community Launch Tennessee $2,000 STEM Innovation Task Force Meeting 2
CULTURE Art120 $30,000 Maker Space and Howard School Program ArstBuild $30,000 Economic impact research and polling for tax-based funding for the arts in Chattanooga. Association for Visual Artists $50,000 4 Bridges Arts Festival Bessie Smith Cultural Center $15,000 2015 Bessie Smith Strut Chattanooga Convention & Visitors Center $130,000 Music Marketing Director Chattanooga Film Festival $30,000 Chattanooga Film Festival Chattanooga History Center $2,100 Consulting Agreement Chattanooga Sports Committee $25,000 Ironman Triathlon Chattanooga Sports Committee $25,000 Ironman Triathlon/World Championship Chattanooga Sports Ministries $20,000 Operation Get Active Chattanooga State $25,000 Latin Festival 3
Chattanooga Theatre Center $30,000 Strategic Plan Chattanooga Woodworking Academy $50,000 Purchase of Equipment and Expand Training City of Chattanooga ML King Mural Project; Expand public art to neighborhoods $200,000 City of Chattanooga $43,000 Art Exhibit on the Bessie Smith Lawn Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga $50,000 Atelier Fund Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga $20,000 Public Art Fund Creative Discovery Museum $10,000 Topiary Train Project Glass House Collective Studio Everything Maker Space $20,000 Jazzanooga $130,000 Jazzanooga Festival $30,000 Animation of MLK District $75,000 Animation of Bessie Smith Hall $25,000 Olivet Baptist Church $5,000 The Art of Noise Unloaded 2015 River City Company $24,000 4
Outdoor furniture, lighting, awnings for the Bessie Smith Cultural Center RiverRocks, Inc. $30,000 2014 Festival 2015 Festival Shaking Ray Levi Society $5,000 TOP Conference Stadium Corporation $62,000 Community Kitchen Incubator PLACE Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority $54,000 Incline Railway Car Replacement Project City of Chattanooga $50,000 Neighborhood University City of Chattanooga $280,000 Public Art for RiverWalk from Ross's Landing to St. Elmo City of Chattanooga $400,000 MLK, City Center, Open Design Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga $30,000 Chattanooga Mobile Market Fund Healthy Corner Store Initiative Freshwaters Illustrated $50,000 Hidden Rivers: A Documentary Friends of Moccasin Bend National Park $150,000 5
National Park Service Centennial Challenge Glass House Collective $40,000 Residential Improvements Program Green/Spaces $30,000 Empower Ridgedale Land Trust for Tennessee $75,000 General Operating Lookout Mountain Conservancy $145,250 Planning and Acquisition of Property Lookout Mountain Conservancy $75,000 Lula Lake Land Trust $75,000 Mission Chattanooga $10,000 Installation of sprinkler system Orange Grove Center $250,000 Facilities Improvement for Recycling River City Company $50,000 Downtown Retail Recruitment River City Company $300,000 ML King Commercial Corridor Sculpture Fields at Montague Park $100,000 Phase 1 6
SORBA Chattanooga $35,000 Construction of New Trails at Enterprise South Southern Environmental Law Center $100,000 Tennessee Aquarium $500,000 Conservation Institute Tennessee River Gorge Trust $75,000 Trust for Public Land $1,050,000 South Chickamauga Creek Greenway University of Tennessee at Chattanooga $15,000 Support CAIT for GIS Services for Planning and Design TALENT Chambliss Center for Children $400,000 Expansion of Early Childhood Program Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga $10,000 Chattanooga Bridge Scholars Fund Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga $9,200 Student Leadership Academy Lookout Mountain Conservancy $30,000 Intern Program at Howard High School Public Education Foundation $1,600 7
IZone Summer Institute Public Education Foundation $300,000 Principal Leadership Pipeline Public Education Foundation $627,400 1:1 Technology Initaitive in Six Schools Public Education Foundation $100,000 Comprehensive Improvement Efforts River City Company Hunter Museum - Arts District Promenade $16,000 TN State Collaborative on Reforming Education $200,000 UnifiEd $300,000 8