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Companion rail
Civic Life portfolio — CPB / PBS · Post Office 2.0 · public-media journalism
This page covers the Census-Tract-Sensor-triggered contract engine. The Civic Life portfolio handles upstream information infrastructure — CPB/PBS at Nordic funding levels, the 31,000 Post Office 2.0 locations as civic hubs (each with a federal employee serving as the locality's COMPASS liaison), and journalism support routed through public media in the 1,700 news-desert counties. Both rails feed the community cohesion domain, from different angles.
2036Total envelope: $165.00B
Rail envelope by COMPASS domain
Food security$0M / $1M (0%)
Housing$2M / $3M (57%)
Mental health$2M / $3M (81%)
Family well-being$0M / $1M (0%)
Youth development$0M / $1M (0%)
Senior well-being$0M / $1M (0%)
Financial health$0M / $1M (0%)
Community cohesion$0M / $1M (0%)
Full steady-state envelope (2036+): $123B/yr + $9.29B Employer Parity Surcharge locality share (a computed fraction of realized surcharge revenue — money follows the workers).
The funding waterline — triage, published
Triggered tracts rank by severity per dollar and are funded at the full effective dose — the cost to actually clear the threshold — down the ranked list until each domain's envelope exhausts. Nothing is diluted into amounts too small to work. What the envelope can't reach this year queues in rank order, and the queue is published: it is the standing, costed case for growing the envelope.
| Domain | Triggered | Funded (full dose) | Waterline rank | Queued | Cost to clear the queue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food security | 9 | 1 | through #1 | 8 | $8M |
| Housing | 9 | 1 | through #1 | 8 | $23M |
| Mental health | 9 | 1 | through #1 | 8 | $15M |
| Family well-being | 7 | 1 | through #1 | 6 | $4M |
| Youth development | 7 | 1 | through #1 | 6 | $5M |
| Senior well-being | 3 | 1 | through #1 | 2 | $1M |
| Financial health | 9 | 2 | through #2 | 7 | $4M |
| Community cohesion | 9 | 3 | through #3 | 6 | $2M |
Doses from program unit costs (workbook-pending calibration); need score uses √population so severity is not swamped by headcount; inputs are federally measured series only (HRSA, USDA ERS, FCC, EPA), so localities cannot game their own scores. Domain envelopes are population-scaled to the tract set shown, so the seed data faces the same per-capita scarcity the production feed will; the full COMPASS tract file runs the identical triage.
Top 10 contracts this year
| Partner | Domain | Allocation | Tracts |
|---|---|---|---|
| NeighborWorks America | Housing | $1.16B | 7 |
| LISC | Housing | $1.16B | 7 |
| Enterprise Community Partners | Housing | $1.16B | 7 |
| Habitat for Humanity | Housing | $1.16B | 7 |
| Continuum of Care (HUD partners) | Housing | $1.16B | 7 |
| United Way (2-1-1 network) | Community cohesion | $1.16B | 7 |
| National Urban League | Community cohesion | $1.16B | 7 |
| UnidosUS | Community cohesion | $1.16B | 7 |
| National Council for Mental Wellbeing | Mental health | $1M | 1 |
| Continuum of Care (HUD partners) | Housing | $1M | 1 |