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Getting Organized:
Institutional Arrangements for Regional Growth and
Development
Multi-sector Partnership Initiatives
Miami, Florida
February 2005
Challenge:
New Responses Required
America’s Citistates
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Most complex challenges
today are regional in scale
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Traditional business,
government and civic
responses are not adequate
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Boundary-crossing is now
required
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Few know how to engage in
this kind of regional civic
leadership
The Challenge
 There are four distinct conversations going on
in communities today
 Rarely are they connected - and they need to
be to effectively address critical issues
 Collaborative civic leadership is required to
connect these conversations
The Challenge
 Is the economy
competitive? Is it based
on speed, quality,
flexibility, knowledge, and
networks?
 Does the economy provide
jobs that enable all citizens
to enjoy a good quality of
life? Does it produce
meaningful jobs that
sustain families all along
the economic spectrum?
The Challenge
 Are diverse populations
and perspectives engaged
and encouraged to
participate as contributing
members of the society?
 Are there safe civic spaces
where public dialogue and
conversations can occur?
 Are diverse thoughts and
opinions respected in the
decision-making process?
The Challenge
 Are citizens’ public safety
and well-being ensured?
 Are housing and public
education opportunities
ensured for all members
of the community?
 Are new visions of design
that reduce sprawl and
traffic congestion being
employed?
 Are arts and cultural
amenities being
promoted?
The Challenge
 Are citizens, businesses,
nonprofits, educations,
and governments working
together to set directions,
solve problems, and take
action?
 Are the participants in
collaborative governance
coordinating resources
and sharing information,
ideas, and power?
Integrating Regional
Conversations
Who—or What—Are
Regional Stewards?
• Integrators—share perspective about linked
economic, environmental, social objectives
• Connectors—bring people together across
worlds, “boundary crossers”
• Communicators of Possibility—raise
aspirations, articulate potential, persuade
Regional Business Civic
Organizations (RBCOs)
What are they?
 The private sector partners in multi-sector regional
collaboration
 Include regional chambers of commerce, boards of
trade, business councils, councils of business
executives, and special-purpose committees
Regional Business Civic
Organizations (RBCOs)
Regional Business Civic
Organizations (RBCOs)
RBCOs:
 Recognize the link between the well-being of the
region and the well-being of businesses in the
region
 Understand that regions are “real places” where
people live and work
 Recognize the role of regions as the arena in which
challenges are best addressed
 Recognize that regional challenges are too complex
to be effectively addressed by a single organization
How are RBCOs Making a Difference?
Creating multi-sector partnership initiatives
Fresno Business Council
 Alliance of business leaders dedicated to
improving long-term social and economic climate
of the region
 Partnered with California State University and
recruited local leaders (non-profit and
government) to work together on five priority
issues:
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Promoting a culture of innovation
Human investment
Land use and transportation
Preparation of knowledgeable workers
Investment in high-tech infrastructure
Fresno Business Council
Collaborative Regional Initiative - Community Values
1. Stewardship
2. Boundary Crossing and Collaboration
3. Commitment to Outcomes
4. “Art of the Possible” Thinking
5. Fact-based Decision Making
6. Truth Telling
7. Power Parity
8. Commitment to Resolving Conflict
9. Asset-based Approach
10. Conflict of Interest
Fresno Business Council:
Success Story
Regional Jobs Initiative (RJI):
 Mission: To develop a short and long-term
comprehensive strategy aimed at creating
25,000 to 30,000 net new jobs within five
years at an average salary of $29,500
 A partnership involving of literally hundreds
of business, civic and public organizations
 After 1 year, nearly 2,000 jobs created
 1,300 business and government leaders now
involved in the effort
 Unemployment rate in Fresno has dropped
Hampton Roads Partnership
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Brings together representatives from major
private sector employers, educational
institutions, local governments, and other
local organizations
Focus on the region's strategic issues for
the purpose of enhancing our
competitiveness in the global economy
Collaborative structure & regional approach
became model for Virginia’s Regional
Competitiveness Act—adopted in 1996 to
support regional collaboratives working on
workforce issues
Hampton Roads Partnership
 Current priorities:
 Correcting regional transportation
inefficiencies
 Promoting technology-based economic
development
 Supporting early childhood development
and workforce readiness
 Advocating for enhanced regional
cooperation
Hampton Roads Partnership:
Success Story
“A Success for Regional Cooperation”
 On March 1, 2005, the Peninsula and Southside
economic development alliances will merge
 New organization will be called the Hampton
Roads Economic Development Alliance (HREDA)
 HREDA will represent the entire region nationally
and internationally to prospective businesses
 Change of perspective—marketing the assets of
“One” region is more effective than two competing
organizations
 “The rising tide raises all ships”
Metropolitan Forum (St. Louis)
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Brings together 45 leaders from the public,
private and civic sectors to cooperate in
addressing challenges facing the bi-state
St. Louis region
Leaders come from the Boards of Directors
of the convening organizations: the EastWest Gateway Council of Government,
FOCUS St. Louis, and the St. Louis
Regional Chamber & Growth Association
Metropolitan Forum (St. Louis)
 Priority Concerns:
 Sluggish job growth,
 Racial and economic disparity
 The effectiveness of local tax policy
 First action step: to build a one-stop
information source on local public
investment
 Next step: convene a dialogue about
how these public investments can
strengthen the quality of regional life
Metropolitan Forum:
Success Story
“More for Our Money”
 Framework for first initiatives
 Can we develop a coordinated public
spending and investment strategy that will
turn the St. Louis region in the right
direction?
 First initiative: Metropolitan Forum
website—data portal allowing community
comparisons
 Data provided “never before available”
 Being used by communities to determine policy
actions
Research Triangle Regional
Partnership
 Public-private partnership of economic
development agencies
 Works collaboratively with the N.C. Department of
Commerce to market 13-county Research Triangle
Region for the economic benefit of communities
 Works with “institutional partners” from business,
government, academia and the nonprofit sector to
identify and address economic development issues
 “Staying on Top: Winning the Job Wars of the
Future” – a $5 million, five-year plan which aims to
create 100,000 new jobs in the region and boost
employment in all 13 counties
Research Triangle Regional
Partnership
RTRP focuses its marketing efforts to attract corporate
investments primarily from 10 clusters of industry and
innovation:
 Pharmaceuticals
 Biological agents and infectious diseases
 Agricultural biotechnology
 Pervasive computing
 Advanced medical care
 Analytical instrumentation
 Nanoscale technologies
 Informatics
 Vehicle component parts
 Logistics and distribution
Research Triangle Regional
Partnership: Success Story
“Staying on Top: Winning the Job Wars of
the Future”
 Success relies on the alignment of
"institutional partners" — now more than
60 organizations across the region — that
have agreed to align their resources and
strategies around a single vision for
economic growth
 To date, 19 of 30 action items have begun
Birmingham Regional Chamber
of Commerce
Partner in Regional Growth Alliance
 Region 2020
 Regional Planning Commission of Greater
Birmingham
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Formed in 2001 in central Alabama as a
means of encouraging regional cooperation
across traditional jurisdictional lines
1/3 citizens, 1/3 business, 1/3 government
Birmingham Regional Chamber
of Commerce
Regional achievements:
 Development of land-use regulations to protect the
Cahaba River watershed
 Generation of hundreds of high-tech sector jobs
 Progress toward low-income homeownership
 Regional support of arts and cultural programs
 Economic development and community design
assistance to small rural cities within the 12-county
regional footprint
 Development of a two-county regional
transportation district proposal