November 2004
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Message from John Parr, President & CEO
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 Fellow Regional Stewards,
If you weren't in Salt Lake City for the National Forum on Regional Stewardship, you missed an exciting and stimulating event which is described later in this e-newsletter. As incoming Chair George Vradenburg commented, Four years ago people came to the forums with lots of ideas, now they are coming with lessons learned from actually practicing regional stewardship. If you are an Organizational or Individual Steward you will soon be receiving a CD-Rom with all the conference presentations.
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Salt Lake City Forum Best Ever
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 On November 11 and 12th, over 100 practitioners of regional stewardship gathered in Salt Lake City, Utah for the Alliance for Regional Stewardship (ARS) semi-annual National Forum on Regional Stewardship. The theme for this forum was Selling the Vision, Creating the Reality and focused on how regions move from public input to implementation of their critical programs. 43 regions were represented in Salt Lake City and every practitioner had experiences of significance to share and learn.
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Dates Set for 2005 National Forums on Regional Stewardship
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 ARS is pleased to announce the dates for the Spring and Fall 2005 National Forums. The Greater Washington Region Forum will be held May 4-6 at the Wyndham Washington, D.C. near Dupont Circle; the theme will be The Next Generation in Collaboration - Linking Economic and Social Issues. This Forum will focus on how collaboration, once reached, can address economic and social conditions of the region. The sessions on Thursday morning will profile the two-state/District of Columbia - Greater Washington Region, the variety of collaborative mechanisms being used to address regional issues, and the aspirations for future approaches to collaboration. Additional sessions will include examples of collaboration in practice from around the county, and the role of the Federal government and Federal policy in regional governance and innovation.
The Fall 2005 Forum will take place in Louisville, Kentucky, November 9-11 at the Brown Hotel. The focus of this forum will be on how public services can be improved or made more efficient through service sharing, consolidation, and mergers.
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ARS Welcomes New Board Member, Officers
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 At the Fall 2004 ARS Board of Directors meeting, Katherine Perez, Executive Director of the Transportation and Land Use Collaborative of Southern California (TLUC) was elected to the ARS Board.
At the same meeting, the Board elected new officers to lead ARS. The new officers are:
Chair: George Vradenburg, President, Vradenburg Foundation
Vice-Chair for Planning: Scott Fosler, Visiting Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Affairs
Vice-Chair for Development: Joan Riehm, Deputy Mayor, Louisville Metro Government
Secretary-Treasurer: Robert Grow, Founding Chair Emeritus, Envision Utah
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ARS Releases New Monographs: Livable Communities, Regional Business Civic Organizations Highlighted
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At the recent National Forum on Regional Stewardship in Salt Lake City, the Alliance for Regional Stewardship released two new monographs. These are the eight and ninth issues in the ARS monograph series.
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New Group Makes a Splash in Tampa Bay
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 CreativeTampaBay, founded in 2003, is a grassroots organization dedicated to connecting and energizing the community's assets to cultivate an environment that encourages innovation, expands the economy, and is a magnet for knowledge-based professionals and entrepreneurs who value and contribute to quality of place.
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Smart Schools, Smart Growth Initiative Announced
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 On November 23, 2004, Smart
Growth American announced a new multi-partner national effort - the Smart Schools, Smart Growth Initiative. This effort is designed to bridge the movements for education equity and smart growth, with the aim of building healthier, more sustainable communities - especially for the most vulnerable children. The founding partners include the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the Public Education Network, and Smart Growth America.
Learn more about this new initiative and sign up for the Smart Schools, Smart Growth newsletter at
www.smart-schools.org.
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Great Expectations
The Pennsylvania Economy League's Campaign for Community Competitiveness
(March 2004)
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 For nearly 100 years the Pennsylvania Economy League (PEL) has provided leaders in Southeastern Pennsylvania with valuable information and insight on the biggest challenges facing the citizens, governments, and businesses of the region. In recent years, PEL has moved from serving as a civic order taker-responding to research requests from civic and government organizations-to a civic agenda setter, stepping forward on tough economic issues and pushing for new ways of thinking about how the region can take full advantage of economic assets like its cultural institutions and colleges and universities. PEL has also expanded on its traditional role by providing invaluable information for the media and voters during important regional and state elections.
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