GIVE YOUR KIDS, YOUR ORGANIZATION AND YOUR COMMUNITY THE WORLD'S BEST GIFT: A BRIGHTER FUTURE.

BECOME A RISING PLACES LOCAL BENEFACTOR
TO HELP MAKE YOUR COMMUNITY A MAGNET
FOR FOUNDATION AND GOVERNMENT GRANTS.

Hundreds Of Billions In Public & Private Grants Are Now Funding:
1) Community Economic Revitalization; 2) Nature Restoration;
3) Disaster Recovery/Resilience; 4) Youth Job Skills.


RISING PLACES fulfills all 4 of those agendas, tapping new
policy and education trends that prepare youth to improve the
urban, rural, economic & environmental future in which they'll live.

"Government and foundation funding tends to go where it will achieve the most...not necessarily where it's most needed.
The more of a funder's agendas your grant proposal addresses, the more it rises above the competition."
- Storm Cunningham

Entrepreneurs, Philanthropists, Educators, Citizens & Leaders:
Your small, 1-time gift grows an inclusive, green local economy.


Enjoy a 50% pre-launch Local Benefactor discount while our Corporate Sponsors and Institutional Partners are finalized.
RisingPlaces.org goes live on January 1, 2025.

Being a RISING PLACES Benefactor is a great way for an organization to put itself at the heart of
local efforts to boost economic recovery, climate resilience & natural resource restoration.

– Steve Haze, Executive Director, Sierra Resource Conservation District
 RISING PLACES Benefactor for Fresno, California, USA

RISING PLACES LOCATOR
Before Registering, Please Check To See If Your Town Or City
Already Has A Local RISING PLACES Benefactor.

NOTE: Some “cities” (like Arlington, Virginia) are actually counties.
This is the only situation in which you can be the Benefactor of a county. 

After you register as a Benefactor, we'll ask which community you wish to benefit.
Check now to see if it already has a Benefactor:

City County

Young Folks Want More Than Just Hope For A Brighter Future.
They want to create it. Now they can, with RISING PLACES Tools.
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Give them tools that educate, activate & monitor progress.
Be the Local RISING PLACES Benefactor.

Your gift gives all local leaders & residents (esp. entrepreneurs & youth) permanent, FREE access to RISING PLACES Tools.

The tools build local renewal capacity, helping communities get accredited as a RISING PLACE. Make your area a magnet for public funding, employers, real estate investors and new residents. Enjoy green, equitable, resilient economic growth.

A rising place is where employers & investors go to grow.

Benefactors include community colleges, foundations, planners, developers, non-profits, mayors, Chambers of Commerce, etc.

Help revitalize your neighborhoods, environment & economy.
Give a community you love access to RISING PLACES Tools.

Your gift is honored at the top of your community's page,
just like one of these actual Local Benefactor banners:

Your community’s Lifetime Pass activates FREE access the RISING PLACES Tools for all local residents and leaders, with an emphasis on youth. 
You will appear in the Local Benefactor Banner on your community’s RISING PLACES page for a period of 5 years.

PRE-LAUNCH PARTY

Join the Pre-Launch Party to save 50% and get a
FREE 1-hour one-on-one consult with Storm Cunningham!

Join other public and private leaders worldwide in supporting RISING PLACES before it launches.

Enjoy a 50% pre-launch discount as a Local Benefactor if you enroll prior to January 1, 2025, when RisingPlaces.org goes live.

And, if you act soon, you can get a FREE one-on-one 1-hour consultation with Storm Cunningham (a $400 value) to help you strategize about leveraging your Local Benefactor status to advance your mission. (learn more about free consult offer)

January 1, 2023: Research phase of RISING PLACES Tools began.
January 1, 2024: Development of RISING PLACES Tools begins.
January 1, 2025: RISING PLACES initiative goes live.

Your Local Benefactor Fee Is Instantly "Refunded" To You.

For each $250 you pay as a Local Benefactor, you will instantly receive two Individual Scholarships that enable any recipient you choose (including yourself, if you wish), to enroll free of charge for certification as a RISING PLACES Planner (RPP). RPP tuition is currently $149, so that’s a $298 “refund” for each $250 of your Benefactor Fee. 

By enabling a few local folks to get their RPP certification, these Individual Scholarships enable your local renewal capacity to start increasing immediately, even before RisingPlaces.org goes live and all residents gain access to the RISING PLACES Tools. You’ll receive your free tuition codes in your Local Benefactor welcome email. 

3 Simple Steps To Registering:

Decide which town or city you wish to benefit, and pay one-time Local Benefactor fee corresponding to its population.

Respond to our Local Benefactor “welcome email” by telling us which community will receive your gift of a brighter future.

That welcome email contains your Individual Scholarship codes for FREE enrollment in the RISING PLACES Planner (RPP) certification. Give them to any youth or adult, and maybe use one for yourself!

That’s it. You’re done. You have no further responsibilities.
We’ll take it from there, creating your community’s toolkit on RisingPlaces.org, ready for use by your local residents, who only need to register on the site (which is quick and free). 

A SMALL, BRIEF GIFT FROM YOU.
A HUGE, LASTING IMPACT FOR ALL.

SILVER: $250

Small Community Benefactor

Lifetime Pass to RISING PLACES Tools for all local residents, plus two Individual RPP Scholarships.
You can benefit 1 Small Community (under 50,000 pop.). 
You will be featured for 5 years in the Local Benefactor Banner of your community’s RISING PLACES page, with a link to your website
Your gift gives all residents FREE, permanent access to our tools, which build the community’s renewal capacity, and help it get accredited as a RISING PLACE.
ACT NOW TO GET YOUR FREE 1-HOUR CONSULT
WITH STORM CUNNINGHAM…AND SAVE 50%:
This one-time fee will be $500
after RisingPlaces.org goes live.

GOLD: $500

Medium Community Benefactor

Lifetime Pass to RISING PLACES Tools for all local residents, plus four Individual RPP Scholarships..
You can benefit 1 Medium Community (under 250,000 pop.)You will be featured for 5 years in the Local Benefactor Banner of your community’s RISING PLACES page, with a link to your website
Your gift gives all residents FREE, permanent access to our tools, which build the community’s renewal capacity, and help it get accredited as a RISING PLACE.
ACT NOW TO GET YOUR FREE 1-HOUR CONSULT
WITH STORM CUNNINGHAM…AND
 SAVE 50%:
This one-time fee will be $1000
after RisingPlaces.org goes live.

PLATINUM: $750

Large Community Benefactor

Lifetime Pass to RISING PLACES Tools for all local residents, plus six Individual RPP Scholarships..
You can benefit 1 Large Community (under 1 million pop.)You will be featured for 5 years in the Local Benefactor Banner of your community’s RISING PLACES page, with a link to your website
 Your gift gives all residents FREE, permanent access to our tools, which build the community’s renewal capacity and help it get accredited as a RISING PLACE.
ACT NOW TO GET YOUR FREE 1-HOUR CONSULT
WITH STORM CUNNINGHAM…AND
 SAVE 50%:
This one-time fee will be $1500

after RisingPlaces.org goes live.

DIAMOND: $1000

Major Community Benefactor

Lifetime Pass to RISING PLACES Tools for all local residents, plus eight Individual RPP Scholarships..
You can benefit 1 Major Community (over 1 million pop.). You will be featured for 5 years in the Local Benefactor Banner of your community’s RISING PLACES page, with a link to your website
 Your gift gives all residents & leaders FREE, permanent access to our tools, which build the community’s renewal capacity and help it get accredited as a RISING PLACE.
ACT NOW TO GET YOUR FREE 1-HOUR CONSULT
WITH STORM CUNNINGHAM…AND
 SAVE 50%:
This one-time fee will be $2000
after RisingPlaces.org goes live.

Need To Learn More Before
Becoming A Local Benefactor?
See below.

Any business serving a geographic market should become the local RISING PLACES Benefactor.
It’s the best goodwill marketing investment we’ve made: far more efficient than advertising!

– Jay Pipavat, CEO, EastWest Web, a global web development company.
RISING PLACES Benefactor for Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India (population 8.5 million)

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE
FIRST BENEFACTOR OF EACH CATEGORY!


FIRST SILVER BENEFACTOR:
Dick Fleming, CEO, Community Development Ventures, Inc.
For: St. Louis, Missouri
FIRST GOLD BENEFACTOR:
INCLUSI.US, LLC (a startup company)
For: Seattle, Washington

FIRST PLATINUM BENEFACTOR:
NATIONAL COMMONWEALTH GROUP

For: Youngstown, Ohio
FIRST DIAMOND BENEFACTOR:
JACOBS (a Fortune 500 company)
For: Dallas, Texas

Are you a real estate investor or redeveloper?

Local Developers: Accelerate Support For Your Projects

Local real estate redevelopers are entrepreneurs, so our tools help responsible ones get the land use entitlements, planning approval, zoning variations or tax breaks they need.

Demonstrate that you are committed to doing your project in a way that helps revitalize the overall community and equitably benefits all local stakeholders.

Activating a community’s RISING PLACES Tools—by being their Benefactor—shows leaders and residents you’re helping their community become a rising place that lifts all lives.

RISING PLACES accreditation is how a city or region proves to residents, employers, and real estate investors that local leaders are serious about equitable economic recovery, neighborhood revitalization and resilience.
– 
Earick Allen, Executive Director at Urban Entrepreneurs Institute

Giving a community RISING PLACES
Tools
is like giving all of your friends
free, permanent gym memberships.

As with exercise equipment, every time a local resident or leader uses our tools, your community builds strength, health, beauty and resilience.

As with a gym membership, people can use our RISING PLACES Tools whenever they want, and as often (or seldom) as they want.

NO APPROVAL IS NEEDED FROM LOCAL LEADERS
FOR YOU TO BE A COMMUNITY'S BENEFACTOR.

A Local Benefactor’s gift only enables local leaders and residents to use our 12 RISING PLACES ToolsTM.
You’re not obligating them to use the tools, and you’re not enrolling them to get accredited as a Rising Place.
You’re providing the opportunity to create a brighter local future: it’s up to the community to actually create it.
That said, some Benefactors are mayors and city managers, paying the small fee from the public budget. 

PLEASE NOTE: (1) New York City boroughs each count as a separate community. (2) We reserve the right to refuse Benefactors we deem to be inappropriate for any reason.  If rejected, your money will, of course, be immediately refunded in full. (3) You can give your community a Lifetime Pass to RISING PLACES Tools in someone else’s name if you wish (with their permission), or in the community’s name, or anonymously.

Only one Benefactor per place: Act now to be a local champion.

Why are folks like you becoming a
local RISING PLACES Benefactor?

1) PROMOTION: They want to benefit their business, non-profit, school, public agency or career. Helping their community is a very satisfying fringe benefit.
2) PUBLIC SERVICE: They just want to benefit their community, and don’t need promotional benefits.

ARE YOU, OR A MEMBER OF YOUR TEAM,
IN ONE OF THESE ALLIED PROFESSIONS?

Reduce your RISING PLACES Benefactor Fee by entering the
relevant member discount code on your enrollment form.

10% discount code: IEDC-10

10% discount code: NACEDA-10

10% discount code: NADO-10

10% discount code: ASCE-10

10% discount code: ULI-10

10% discount code: APA-10

10% discount code: AIA-10

10% discount code: ICMA-10

10% discount code: ASLA-10

To request a discount for your organization’s members, email info@reconomics.org

3 WAYS TO SUPPORT RISING PLACES:
Sponsor, Partner and Local Benefactor.

To learn more about RISING PLACES, or about the FREE 1-hour strategy consult with Storm Cunningham, click the logo below.

Helping public & private funders find great places to grow resilient, equitable economies.
Helping public & private leaders of all ages create great places in which to live, work & invest.

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