CEOsForCities

The Talent Dividend Tour: Indianapolis

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:09:33 +0000

On June 25, CEOs for Cities visited Indianapolis as part of our Talent Dividend tour. Brian Payne of the Central Indiana Community Foundation, Charles Bantz at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, and David Dressler with the Center of Excellence in Leadership of Learning at University of Indianapolis were a tour de force of civic leadership. They guided the 40-member group of community leaders to a consensus decision to adopt the Talent Dividend as a short-term goal, while everyone in the room continues to work on the long-term issues associated with getting more people through college.

Carol Coletta on CEOs for Cities work in Grand Rapids

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:01:13 +0000

Carol Coletta offers her insights on the work being done in Grand Rapids to amplify their assets including a look at ArtPrize. www.artprize.org

Help Imagine the New American dream.

Tue, 26 May 2009 20:22:57 +0000

When GM depicted a new vision of the good life for Americans at the 1939 World’s Fair (vivid pictures of a highway system that ran through the rural farmland into the heart of a well-ordered urban environment, where every family would own at least one car and would use it as their primary mode of transportation) it looked like a dream come true.

And you know what? It worked. A lot of people shared that dream. We have freeways connecting every major city in America. Most families in America have not just one but two or three cars.

We also have gridlock traffic.
And pollution.
And an addiction to foreign oil.

Our health is in danger from sitting too much and moving too little. And we’ve undermined the natural advantages of cities for innovation, opportunity and efficiency by spreading too few people over too much land.

It is increasingly clear that the old American dream is shattered. We need a new American dream to replace it, a dream better suited for today’s realities. We need a new definition of the good life.

Do you have ideas that can help? Post them here.

Carol Coletta at CNU

Mon, 04 May 2009 21:07:09 +0000

Carol Coletta speaks to the Congress for the New Urbanism.

Vice President Biden and CEOs For Cities

Mon, 04 May 2009 16:55:07 +0000

The Talent Dividend Tour: Atlanta

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:24:40 +0000

Music by Gene M. Rozenberg

Paul Grogan On the Green Dividend

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:08:48 +0000

CEOsforCities founder Paul Grogan gives some
significant insights on how cities might benefit from the Green
Dividend.

Paul Grogan On the Talent Dividend

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:53:55 +0000

CEOsforCities founder Paul Grogan gives a compelling
argument for using the City Dividends Research, as well as some
significant insights on how cities might benefit from the Talent
Dividend.

Chad Wick on the Talent Dividend

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:44:40 +0000

Chad Wick of the Knowledge Foundation.

Harriet Tregoning on the Green Dividend

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:27:34 +0000

Harriet Tregoning of the D.C. Office of Planning

Jeff Speck on The Green Dividend

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:28:16 +0000

Suburban Nation co-author and former NEA Design Director Jeff Speck talks
about how to achieve the Green Dividend at the recent CEOsforCities meeting. Jeff is an urban planner based in
D.C.

Talent Dividend

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:05:35 +0000

More education equals more money. But how much is it worth to your city to go back to school?

Carol Coletta at the Taste of Chicago

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:32:14 +0000

Carol Coletta takes us through one of Chicago's many summer city events

Driven To The Brink

Sat, 10 May 2008 04:58:48 +0000

Music By GeeNerve

Suspense Dance Delight

Read the full research here.

Chicago's Green Dividend

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:23:13 +0000

How much is it worth, to live two miles closer to work.