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 MetroBusinessNet is a new resource for business-civic leaders. It is demonstrating how business leaders can work collaboratively through civic institutions to develop and implement business practices and public policies that support sustainable and inclusive economic development on a metropolitan scale. Learning from each other and from expert practitioners, network participants are designing and implementing innovative solutions to regional socio-economic challenges that impact business performance.
MetroBusinessNet has articulated a market-driven action agenda for business-civic organizations working to promote sustainable and inclusive regional development. Business-civic organizations can play a critical role in:
- Supporting member companies to invest core operating resources in business activities that address regional disparities;
- Designing and advocating for public policies that promote sustainable development goals and outcomes;
- Anchoring industry growth clusters in the urban core; and
- Building long-term coalitions among business, government and nonprofits.
MetroBusinessNet provides information, strategies and expertise to build regional business-civic capacity in support of this agenda. It helps develop this capacity through three fundamental activities:
- Annual convening
- Strategies and tools
- Regional workshops
The MetroBusinessNet Annual Convening will take place on February 17 and 18, 2005 at the Hyatt Regency Miami in Miami, Florida.
Learn how leading business-civic organizations in North America are reshaping the regional development agenda. Understand how business leadership groups in major metropolitan regions are:
- Attracting and retaining talent
- Anchoring technology industries in the urban core
- Addressing the jobs-housing mismatch
- Revitalizing urban neighborhoods through double-bottom line investment funds
- Building strategic regional coalitions with government, community, and advocacy groups
- Restructuring to address issues of regional competitiveness
For more information, visit the MetroBusinessNet website at http://www.metrobusinessnet.net/index.html.
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