Rural Land Bank Learning Exchange Application | Center for Community Progress

The National Land Bank Network's Rural Land Bank Learning Exchange is an opportunity for rural land bank leaders and partners to connect and learn about the challenges and opportunities specific to addressing vacancy in their communities. Applications are due March 20, 2024 at 5 PM ET.

Questions? View the program information packet, check out the FAQs, attend our informational webinar, or email Christina Carter-Grant, Associate Director of the National Land Bank Network, at [email protected].

2024 Rural Land Bank Learning Exchange Application

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Lead Applicant(Required)

Must be a land bank or land banking program.

Point of Contact

Name(Required)

First Last

Email(Required)

Job Title(Required)

Organization

If other than the land bank or land banking program.

Phone(Required)

Address(Required)

Street Address Address Line 2 City State / Province / Region ZIP / Postal Code Country

Land Bank Information

Year Created(Required)

Please enter a number from 1971 to 2024.

Number of Staff(Required)

Shared and/or full time.

Number of properties (if any) in inventory(Required)

Population of geography served(Required)

Has your land bank previously participated in any Community Progress or NLBN event or program? If so, please specify.(Required)

Delegation Information

Please list up to three additional participants for your delegation in the learning exchange. Land bank staff, land bank board members, land bank residents and community advisory committee members, and other community partners (elected officials, local government partners, nonprofits, etc.) should be considered as possible delegation members.

Additional Delegation Member

First Name Last Name

Job Title and/or Affiliation

(e.g. Associate Director of Demolition, Board Member, community member & steward of community garden on a land bank-owned lot)

Additional Delegation Member

First Name Last Name

Job Title and/or Affiliation

(e.g. Associate Director of Demolition, Board Member, community member & steward of community garden on a land bank-owned lot)

Additional Delegation Member

First Name Last Name

Job Title and/or Affiliation

(e.g. Associate Director of Demolition, Board Member, community member & steward of community garden on a land bank-owned lot)

Availability

Please indicate your delegation’s availability during the following dates to either host a learning exchange, or travel to cohort communities for a learning exchange. Indicating dates of unavailability will not disqualify your application.(Required)

Select all that apply.

July 9–11, 2024

July 16–18, 2024

August 20–22, 2024

Should your community be selected to participate, would you be willing to be the host location for the learning exchange?(Required)

Select One

Yes

Questions

What are the greatest success(es) your land bank (and community) has achieved?(Required)

What are the top three organizational topic areas your land would be most interested in learning about? (e.g., operational funding, program funding, staff capacity, board development, policies and procedures, strategic planning, budgeting, resident and community engagement, etc.)(Required)

What are the top three general programmatic topic areas your land bank would be most interested in learning about? (e.g., heirs properties, affordable housing, commercial vacancy, absentee landlords, brownfields, etc.)(Required)

Are there any specific land banks and/or land bank programs (e.g., shared housing and building code enforcement, affordable housing partnerships, manufactured housing, rehab, vacant land reclamation, etc.) that you would be interested in learning about?(Required)

Name

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