Explore Our Initiatives

Through our various programs and initiatives, NGIN provides technical assistance, capital, and innovative strategies to cities and communities.

FEATURED
Small and Midsized City Hub
Small and Midsized City Hub

Created with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Small and Midsized City (SMC) Hub is a practitioner-led community with opportunities for learning, technical assistance, advocacy, and connections to capital.

Equity Impact Investments
Equity Impact Investments

Equity Impact Investments offers tailor-made training and in-depth localized partnership support for Community-Based Organizations and Economic Development Organizations.

Supporting Environmental Equity through Data (SEED)
Supporting Environmental Equity through Data (SEED)

SEED is designed to empower communities to become local data champions, capable of advocating for data equity and implementing robust data plans for EPA grant reporting as well as environmental and economic opportunities.

Advancing Economic Mobility (AEM)
Advancing Economic Mobility (AEM)

NGIN leads Advancing Economic Mobility (AEM) to support local economic leaders adopt data, tools, and knowledge resources to advance economic mobility in their communities for low and middle income workers and residents. This project is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Inclusive Recovery Initiative
Inclusive Recovery Initiative

Funded by the Economic Development Administration, this program supported six Economic Development Districts incorporate inclusive economic recovery actions into regional economic strategies and develop a National Community of Practice.

Sub-Initiatives

FEATURED
Economic Inclusion Incubator
Economic Inclusion Incubator

The Economic Inclusion Incubator, a sub-initiative of NGIN’s Small and Midsized Cities Hub, is designed to empower Small and Midsized Cities (SMCs) to implement inclusive economic development strategies.

Learn. Explore. Activate. In Place (LEAP)
Learn. Explore. Activate. In Place (LEAP)

Learn, Explore, Activate in Place (LEAP) is a transformative sub-initiative of NGIN’s Small and Midsized Cities (SMC) Hub, designed to bring together delegations of community and economic leaders from SMCs to explore and implement innovative models for inclusive economic growth in exemplary cities.