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Urban Next Summit
Will you be among the select group of emerging leaders who influence the next American Dream?
The American identity is at a tipping point, moving from what some have called an excess of go-it-alone toward an optimistic culture of do-it-together. This shift is being driven by a new class of urban activists who see a different future for America’s cities, powered by imagination, collective action and technology—people who are unwilling to wait for permission to get things done. With their zeal for change and their ability to bring people together to make important things happen, they are at the forefront of defining how people will live life in cities in the first half of this century.
CEOs for Cities and SPUR are convening a select group of these innovators and community change agents September 20-21 in San Francisco. If this sounds like a gathering that won’t be complete without you, contact Natalie Campbell at 312-553-5157. The Urban Next Summit is free to those with important experience to share and ideas to contribute. Applications are due August 13, 2010.
Urban Leaders Summit 2010
The Urban Leaders Summit is a national forum CEOs for Cities’ partnership network that offers cutting-edge ideas, peer-to-peer learning and quick-start action strategies to advance the next generation of great American cities. On November 8-9, 2010, CEOs for Cities will host The Good Life Transformed: When Times Call for Radical Change at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, a laboratory of radical, civic change.
This provocative and timely discussion of the critical issues facing cities today is only open to the CEOs for Cities partnership network. Not a partner? Become one. Contact Julia Klaiber at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 202.525.5627.
Miami Brain Trust
Miami has a long legacy of reinvention. It is a place where citizens of many cultures have been able to set aside their fears and come together to create a better future for themselves and each other. And so on February 3, 2011, CEOs for Cities and Florida International University will host RE:VISION MIAMI, an exclusive cross-sector convening of local thinkers, dreamers and doers whose collective and catalytic leadership is transforming Miami in the 21st century.
The theme will be optimism, and the challenge will be to harness that optimism to achieve big ambitions for Miami set forth in the US Initiative:
• Opportunity: We can develop all of our talents and put them to use.
• Livability: We can have access to beauty, in the form of art, good design and nature every day.
• Connectivity: We can meet our daily needs without owning a car.
• Community: We can engage in a robust public life.
A short video overview on the ambitions of the US Initiative can be viewed here.
The Miami Brain Trust is by invitation only and will take place at the spectacular, Frank Gehry-designed New World Symphony building.
Results of the Miami Brain Trust will be published nationally in a book generously underwritten by The Rockefeller Foundation and promoted on a national tour in 2012.
Questions? Contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) at 202-525-5627.
Oklahoma City Brain Trust
On March 23, 2011, CEOs for Cities, the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber and Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett hosted the Oklahoma City Brain Trust, a robust discussion among local urban leaders about what city success looks like globally and how it can be achieved locally. Participants responded to trends shaping the future of cities and how Oklahoma City is likely to fare in light of them. The final report includes action items for how the local civic agenda needs to shift in response to these trends.
Further, we explored what it means to be a world class city — one of those special places we’ve lived in or traveled to that have left indelible imprints on our experiences and memories. We named them, identified the reasons why they are special and asked ourselves what it would take for Oklahoma City to be listed among them.
Outcomes of the Brain Trust are included in the final report you can download from this page. They will also be compiled and put to use for the development of a national policy agenda and planned publications related to the US Initiative, including a book made possible with support from The Rockefeller Foundation.
Questions? Contact Julia Klaiber at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
