Collaboration in practice.
Real projects. Real progress.
Across Southwestern Pennsylvania, CoHub works alongside communities to help turn ideas into action. From funding navigation and project readiness to implementation support, these projects reflect the partnerships, momentum, and local leadership driving community progress throughout the region.
As of July 1, 2026, CoHub has secured $22.4 M in funds for regional projects and have supported over 100 projects in applications totaling over $185 million.
Explore the work, stories, and outcomes helping communities move forward.
Reconnecting Communities Across the Monongahela and Turtle Creek Valleys
A coordinated, multi-municipal effort to reconnect five historic communities long divided by transportation and rail infrastructure. With CoHub providing technical assistance, grant strategy, and partnership support, regional partners secured an $800,000 U.S. DOT Reconnecting Communities Pilot grant to fund a feasibility study, alternatives analysis, and conceptual design.
What Communities Are Saying
Voices from the municipalities, nonprofits, community organizations, and regional partners CoHub works alongside — reflections on grant-writing support, partnership building, and the momentum that comes from communities doing the work themselves.
View project→Reimagine Greene County
A collaborative initiative bringing together local leaders, organizations, businesses, and residents to shape Greene County's future. Through a four-phase process of listening, visioning, learning, and action, the work surfaced three shared priorities — quality of life, regional collaboration, and a regenerative local economy — and launched concrete efforts like Step Up Greene and an ongoing regional collaborative.
Community Benefits Materials Bank
A continuously updated repository of community benefits materials.
A Guide to Community Benefits in Southwestern Pennsylvania
An overview of community benefits agreements and their use in Southwestern PA. The guide includes tools, templates, and examples that your community can adapt and modify.
Program Development Toolkit for Equitable Climate Action
In partnership with DEP and the U.S. Climate Alliance, Fourth Economy developed this Program Development Toolkit, a set of questions departmental staff and program developers can use to ensure inclusive community development.
Making Infrastructure More Equitable and Inclusive
A concise overview of community benefits agreements and their role in inclusive community development, with links to sample CBAs from different infrastructure projects.
Guidebook for PA Municipalities
A guidebook informing officials and municipal leaders about typical solar development processes, zoning, ordinances, permitting, and incentives, with emphasis on farmland preservation and local community benefits.
Guidebook for PA Landowners: Leasing Property for Large-Scale Solar Development
Helps landowners navigate the nuances of solar lease agreements from start to finish and highlights the legal, technical, and practical considerations that are part of solar land-leasing.
Ready to Write! — Strategies and Tools for Writing a Competitive Municipal Assistance Program (MAP)
A step-by-step toolkit for writing a competitive application for the PA Department of Community & Economic Development Municipal Assistance Program.
Budgets for Beginners
A step-by-step guide to developing a budget for your projects, with a guided worksheet, a glossary of terms, and a template budget spreadsheet downloadable in Google Sheets and Excel.
Community Infrastructure Center
A digital platform that connects community project sponsors with the essential resources they need to move infrastructure projects forward.
An Overview of Strategic Planning or “VMOSA”
In-depth, step-by-step guides on strategic planning that help define your project's Vision, Mission, Objectives, Strategies, and Action Plans.
View project→Monitoring and Evaluation: Some Tools, Methods, and Approaches
A somewhat technical guide that gives practitioners the tools and skill set to monitor and evaluate project impact.
View project→How to Develop a Monitoring and Evaluation Plan
An in-depth how-to guide explaining how to develop a monitoring and evaluation plan to gauge your project's impact.
View project→Start the Conversation.
Every project starts somewhere. Help CoHub learn more about your community, project, or idea so we can better understand where support may be helpful. You do not need to have everything figured out to reach out. Whether you’re exploring funding opportunities, building readiness, developing a project, or simply trying to understand what’s possible, this is a place to start the conversation.
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