R4R Resources for Redevelopment Resources for Redevelopment helps nonprofit organizations find new homes. The program facilitates investigation of the environmental condition of a property one of its nonprofit partners may acquire. R4R is targeted at nonprofits that own or want to acquire properties where past commercial or industrial practices may have resulted in environmental contamination. Such contamination could be a major problem for any development, and all parties concerned must be sure that redevelopment of the property will not result in a threat to human health or the environment. Further, banks routinely require environmental investigations as a condition of financing a property transfer.
Nonprofit organizations encounter polluted land in a number of ways.
In some cases, an organization is simply expanding its existing facilities, and its location merits investigating the environmental conditions of the land it's expanding onto. Sometimes a piece of property is transferred to a nonprofit as a charitable donation without consideration of potential environmental complications. In other cases, nonprofits may have identified neighborhoods where services are needed and have chosen to locate there. It's no coincidence that many neighborhoods in need of social and economic investment are dotted by abandoned, environmentally impacted property. For more information, please contact Michael Welch .