RegionWatch Index

August 2005

ARS LETTER TO YOU


Doug Henton
President, Collaborative Economics
National Coordinator, John W. Gardner Academy for Regional Stewardship

Five Years of Progress: Taking the Next Step  

Five years ago the Alliance for Regional Stewardship was created at its first national gathering in Kohler, Wisconsin. From that first step, ARS has embraced an increasing number of regional stewards through its semi-annual national forums, Regional Stewardship Awards, John Gardner Academies and boot camps.

What have we learned from this experience so far? First, there is a growing recognition of the importance of diagnosing regional challenges using the regional stewardship framework that highlights the interdependence of an innovative economy, livable community, social inclusion and collaborative governance.  There is an increasing understanding that the critical issues focus on the intersections among these domains and require boundary crossing behavior.

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THE REGIONAL FILES


Louisville, Kentucky

The "Kentuckiana Region"


Louisville, Kentucky is the 16th largest city in the United States with a population of nearly 700,000 residents. It is the economic center of a 23-county, two-state ?Kentuckiana? region of 1.3 million covering 16 counties in north-central Kentucky and 7 counties in southern Indiana.

Founded in 1778 as a trading center at the Falls of the Ohio River, Louisville continues as a transportation and distribution center with three interstate highways, the overnight air hub of UPS, a regional rail hub for CSX Transportation, Inc., and freight traffic on the Ohio that rivals the Panama Canal.

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GETTING TO KNOW ARS


Each month in 2005, ARS will be introducing its Board members and Associates. This month, we introduce Robert Yaro, President of New York's Regional Plan Association. We also introduce Doug Henton, President of Collaborative Economics and National Coordinator of ARS's John W. Gardner Academy for Regional Stewardship.

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ARS ACTIVITIES


Register Now for the ARS National Forum on Regional Stewardship!

12th National Forum will highlight Louisville Merger experience and explore new models of Collaborative Governance


Register today for the ARS National Forum on Regional Stewardship!! Register by October 19th to receive the Early Bird rate of $250 (discounts available for ARS members and regional teams). The agenda and online registration are available at: regionalstewardship.org/register4forum.html.

This Forum?s theme is ?Collaborative Governance--Is Your Community Ready??  This Fall meeting will examine successful models of collaboration involving governments in the U.S. , including examples from rural areas.  New ideas in building regional identity and in academic research on regionalism also will be explored.

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Next Regional Stewardship Boot Camp To Be Held November 9th in Louisville, Kentucky

Take Things to the Next Stage

The Regional Stewardship Boot Camp is an intensive, one-day session and six months of follow-up coaching designed to teach regions how to launch a breakthrough regional stewardship initiative or take an existing effort to the next stage. This session is for groups generally familiar with the concepts and practice of regional stewardship, who want to ignite change in their own region.

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INNOVATIVE IDEAS


Health Care a Major Focus for Greater Louisville

The Greater Louisville area is home to more than 2,000 health-related companies, employing 72,000 workers who earn more than $2.4 billion annually.  The companies include 15 hospitals, two Fortune 500 headquarters (Humana Inc. and ), medical suppliers, insurers and claims processors. 

Growth of the health-care sector, a strong part of the local economy for decades, was a major priority of a community Visioning report commissioned in the late 1990s by Greater Louisville Inc. the Metro Chamber of Commerce.  Results to date show the value of a strong public-private focus on a major economic niche for the area.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS


Greater Cumberland Committee Seeking Executive Director

The Greater Cumberland Committee is a business-funded non-profit organization with business presidents and CEO's on its board representing Allegany and Garrett Counties, MD; Bedford County, PA and Mineral County, WV.  The organization represents more than 12,000 employees in the Tri-State region. The mission of TGCC is to improve the business climate of the greater Cumberland region by organizing its corporate and civic leadership to develop solutions to the problems that affect the region's competitiveness and viability.

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Brookings Institution Seeks Manager for National Infrastructure for Community Statistics (NICS) Project

Position within the Metropolitan Policy Program

The NICS Manager will lead a multi-organizational process to develop and implement the National Infrastructure for Community Statistics (NICS), an innovative web-based marketplace aimed at providing access to thousands of community-level data sets across the U.S. and to services related to these data (e.g., mapping, dataset integration, and analysis). The manager will guide NICS through its start-up phase over the next year and brings it to full-scale implementation in the second half of 2006. This goal will be achieved through leadership of the 200-member NICS Community of Practice (CoP) and its committees. The NICS CoP is comprised of representatives from federal, state, and local government agencies, national and local nonprofits, research institutions, and commercial enterprises with an interest in the development of NICS.

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