The Heartland 2050 project has received a financial boost from the local philanthropic community. The Metropolitan Area Planning Agency (MAPA) was awarded a $75,000 challenge grant by the Peter Kiewit Foundation to help implement the regional vision plan Heartland 2050.
The grant will assist with broadening and creating relationships with partners, working to secure resources for initiative implementation, working with city and county governments to identify and implement strategies that best fit their needs, and developing wider availability and use of standard data to be used in decision making for public and private investment in the region’s infrastructure.
Heartland 2050 is a planning process to help define what the community wants its region to be like in forty years. It gives the community an opportunity to influence the region’s future and guarantees that the regional vision takes into account our people, places, and resources. As part of the conditions for the challenge grant awarded by the Peter Kiewit Foundation, MAPA must raise $127,938 in local matching funds.
MAPA is a voluntary association of local governments in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa. It brings local and regional officials and citizens together to address regional planning issues. For more information about the Metropolitan Area Planning Agency (MAPA), visit www.mapacog.org.