start with your city - ceos for cities

8/22/2019 Start With Your City - CEOs for Cities

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WANT TOCHANGE

THE WORLD?

START WITH

YOUR CITY.

NOW.


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The greaTesT driver of

global economic growTh?


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ciTies are,as Tomfriedmanof TheNEW YORkTimEs noTedThe jobfacToriesof ThefuTure.

million AmericAns

live in the 3% of ournAtion thAt is urbAn.

At A time WheN mOre thAN hAlf Of the WOrld lives

iN urbAN AreAs, strONg, successful AmericAN cities

Are mOre esseNtiAl thAN ever tO A strONg AmericA.


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fixingamericas

biggesTproblems andre-winningThe worldcan only be

accomplishedone ciTyaT a Time.Jim cliftON chairman of gallup

The Cong Job War


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biggesT driver of economic

growTh in ciTies?

urban leaders who are

connecTed wiTh each

oTher and To The smarTesT

ideas for making ciTies

successful.


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our social species

greaTesT TalenT is The

abiliTy To learn from

each oTher.our abiliTyTo connecT wiTh each

oTher is The defining

characTerisTic of our

species.knowledge (is)

more valuable Than

ever, and ThaT hasincreased The value of

learning from people

in oTher ciTies.

ed glAeser harvard professor

Truph of the Cty


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The future belongs to those cities who can

connect and collaborate with the smartest

people and the smartest ideas in the most

places and in the most ways, and work twice

as hard and twice as fast.

The new raw material is knowledge;

the cities that collect, sift, mine, analyze,

share, and apply it the fastest and most

effectively will win.

There is always something more to learn

from someone else, somewhere else.

Tear downwalls, build

bridges, andlighT fires.steve JObs


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CEOs for Cities is global learning community and

partnership network that connects urban leaders

to each other and to smart ideas and practices, case

studies, compelling stories, and lessons learned

for making cities more vibrant, sustainable,

and economically competitive and successful.

We connect across sectors, borders, levels,

and generations.

We a re Civic CEO srath er than be sel f-

limited by our nameCEOs for Cities inclusive

definition of CEO means not only Chief Executive

Officers but also Chief Entrepreneurial Officers,

Chief Education Officers, Chief Economic Officers,

Chief Experience Officers, and Chief Exploration

Officers. In other words, we honor urban

leadership where it happens, regardless ofrank or sector.

Since we were founded in 2001, CEOs for Cities

has been a fresh, distinctive voice for the power,

promise, and potential of cities. As Paul Grogan

noted in Comeback Cities, A living place is

someones success. These are matters of choice

and skill, not laws of physics.


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city vitAlsour framework for measuring ciTy success

connecTedness

innovaTion

talenT

your disTincTive asseTs

city divideNdsour acTion agenda

Action able goals for achie vin g m eas urable

economic progress.

connecTedness opporTuniTy

innovaTion green

TalenT immigraTion

disTincTiveness

we

frame,acT,connecT,engage.

city clusters

our organizaTional plaTform

Teams of cross-sector Civic CEOs

in each city in our global learning

community and partnership network.

City Cluster members participate as

a team in our national, regional, and

local convenings; and have access to

our exclusive member-driven research

portfolio and knowledge base of smart

ideas and practices, case studies,

compelling stories, and lessons learned.


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ceos for ciTies is an imporTanT

Tool for our clusTer as iT exposes

our group To The successes

and challenges of oTher ciTies.

we advance our knowledge byinTeracTing wiTh leaders ThaT

provoke new ThoughT for our

clusTer members.

dAve egNer presidenT and ceo

KAty lOcKer vice presidenT of programs

Hudon-Webber Foundaton, Detrot, mchgan

By having a CEOs for Cities cluster, we have

been able to bring 1215 colleagues at once.

Rather than having 23 of us trying to spread

the knowledge to our colleagues when we get

home, we have a cluster hearing it and then

brainstorming about how we can use the content.

That is a huge value.

briAN PAyNe presidenT and ceo

Central indana County Foundaton

and The indanapol Foundaton

ceos for ciTies is an idea facTory

for invesTing in The disTincTive

asseTs of ciTies. wiTh The help of

former chicago mayor richard m.

daley and many oTher greaT urbanleaders ThroughouT The counTry,

ceos for ciTies has developed a

unique parTnership neTwork for

creaTing, sharing, and helping

implemenT cuTTing-edge ideas

for maximizing The promise and

poTenTial of american ciTies.

PAul grOgAN founder of ceos for ciTies

Predent and CEO, Boton Foundaton

By participating in CEOs for Cities, you

are able to stay ahead of the pack by staying

connected through the network, best

practices and ideas, and events.

Jim uKrOP former chairman

Frt maret Ban, Rchond, Vrgna


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ceos for ciTiesis unique

first, iTs The only naTional

urban organizaTion i know of

wiTh a neTwork of cross-secTor,

cross-generaTional leaders who

share ideas and pracTices abouT

The economic success of ciTies

from mulTiple perspecTives.

secONd, iT provides cuTTing-

edge research and acTionable

goals, called ciTy dividends, for

achieving economic progress.

third,ceos for ciTies TalenT

dividend creaTes an aggressive

and exciTing imperaTive for

americas ciTies To seT more

ambiTious TargeTs in higher

educaTion aTTainmenT and

economic success.

NANcy ZimPher board chair, ceos for ciTies

Chancellor of sUNY, The state Unverty of New Yor.


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ceos for ciTies provides

exTraordinary value. They have

allowed us To creaTe muscle

memory around collaboraTing

To solve a civic problem in

a unique way.

dOug Kridler presidenT and ceo

The Colubu Foundaton

CEOs for Cities places us elbow to elbow with

amazing thought leaders from across the country.

It has helped us launch data-driven initiativesand the cross-sector approach has made us more

cognizant that we needed increased alignment

between our community leadership training

model and our community values.

dAvid WilliAms presidenT and ceo

Leaderhp meph

when we are all working

so hard on our own ciTy,

we someTimes donT see whaTs

going on in The broader world.

The ceos for ciTies neTwork and

programming has provided us

The opporTuniTy To benchmark

whaT were doing againsT whaTs

happening in The broader realm,

and The opporTuniTy To showcase

some of The Things were doing

ThaT are cuTTing edge.

dAvid giNsburg presidenT and ceo

Downtown Cncnnat inc.


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We connect urban leaders to powerful ideas

and to each other through our global learningcommunity and partnership network, and by

researching, creating, and sharing smart ideas

and practices in the four areas most vital

to city success: Connectedness, Innovation,

Talent, and Your Distinctive Assets.

To conTacT us, send us an email

To [email protected]

lee fisher presidenT and ceo

[email protected]

NANcy l. ZimPher board chair

Chancellor of sUNY, the state Unverty of New Yor

cO-fOuNders

PAul grOgAN PREsiDENT/CEO, Boton Foundaton; richArd m. dAley

FORmER mAYOR OF CHiCAGO; chArles rAtNer CHAiRmAN, Foret Cty

Enterpre; geOrge ruPP FORmER PREsiDENT, Coluba Unverty;

eugeNe trANi FORmER PREsiDENT, Vrgna Coonwealth Unverty.

Offices:

chicago + cleveland + washingTon, d.c.

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