Getting Organized: Institutional Arrangements for Regional Growth and Development Multi-sector Partnership Initiatives

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Getting Organized Institutional Arrangements
for Regional Growth and DevelopmentMulti-sector
Partnership Initiatives

• Miami, Florida
• February 2005

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ChallengeNew Responses Required

• Most complex challenges today are regional in
  scale
• Traditional business, government and civic
  responses are not adequate
• Boundary-crossing is now required
• Few know how to engage in this kind of regional
  civic leadership

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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

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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?

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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?

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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?

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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?

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Integrating Regional Conversations
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Whoor WhatAre Regional Stewards?

• Integratorsshare perspective about linked
  economic, environmental, social objectives
• Connectorsbring people together across worlds,
  boundary crossers
• Communicators of Possibilityraise aspirations,
  articulate potential, persuade

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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

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Regional Business Civic Organizations (RBCOs)
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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

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How are RBCOs Making a Difference?Creating
multi-sector partnership initiatives
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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
• Promoting a culture of innovation
• Human investment
• Land use and transportation
• Preparation of knowledgeable workers
• Investment in high-tech infrastructure

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Fresno Business Council

• Collaborative Regional Initiative - Community
  Values
• Stewardship
• Boundary Crossing and Collaboration
• Commitment to Outcomes
• Art of the Possible Thinking
• Fact-based Decision Making
• Truth Telling
• Power Parity
• Commitment to Resolving Conflict
• Asset-based Approach
• Conflict of Interest

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Fresno Business CouncilSuccess 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

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Hampton Roads Partnership

• 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 Virginias Regional
  Competitiveness Actadopted in 1996 to support
  regional collaboratives working on workforce
  issues

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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

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Hampton Roads PartnershipSuccess 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 perspectivemarketing the assets of
  One region is more effective than two competing
  organizations
• The rising tide raises all ships

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Metropolitan Forum (St. Louis)

• 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 East-West Gateway
  Council of Government, FOCUS St. Louis, and the
  St. Louis Regional Chamber Growth Association

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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

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Metropolitan ForumSuccess 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
  websitedata portal allowing community
  comparisons
• Data provided never before available
• Being used by communities to determine policy
  actions

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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

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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

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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

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Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce

• Partner in Regional Growth Alliance
• Region 2020
• Regional Planning Commission of Greater
  Birmingham
• 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

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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

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