Thursday, May 15

Morning Plenary Program

1. St. Louis Case Study

• Overview
• Presentation
  • Roger Fritz, President, Leadership by Design, Inc. (Moderator)
  • Chris Chadwick, Executive Director, FOCUS St. Louis
  • Dick Fleming, President & CEO, Regional Chamber & Growth Association
  • Les Sterman, Executive Director, East-West Gateway Coordinating Council
    
• Notes

2. Writers Panel

• Overview
  • Bob Yaro, President, New York Regional Plan Association (Moderator)
  • Scott Fosler, Author, Working Better Together
  • Terry Jones, Author, Metropolitan Chase
  • Todd Swanstrom, Co-Author, Place Matters: Metropolitics for the 21st Century
    
• Notes
  

3. Session 1, Option A—“Building Regional and Community Development Partnerships”

• Overview
• Presentations
  • Jim Gibson, (moderator) Chair, PolicyLink
  • Brian Bosworth, President, FutureWorks
  • Kim Burnett, Community Development Partnerships Network (download PowerPoint)
  • Erin Flynn, Program Manager, Metro Business Net, (download PowerPoint)
• Notes

Session 1, Option B—Measuring Regional Progress: Indicators and Identity

• Overview
• Presentations
  • Neal Peirce, Chair, Citistates Group (moderator)
  • MaryBeth Burton, Director, Regional Programs, Catanese Center for Urban & Environmental Solutions, Florida Atlantic University, (download PDF)
  • Charlotte Kahn, Director, Boston Indicators Project, The Boston Foundation
  • Charles Wheelan, Communication Director, Chicago Metropolis 2020 (download PowerPoint)

4. Session 2, Option A—Role of Foundations: Regional Grantmaking

• Overview
  • Ben Starrett, Executive Director, Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities
  • Nancy Douzinas, President, Rauch Foundation, Long Island,
    
• Notes

Session 2, Option B—Regional Partnerships with the Federal Government
• Overview
• Presentations
  • David Warm, Executive Director, Mid-America Regional Council (moderator)
  • Ruben Barrales Director, Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, White House
  • Richard Doege, Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Institute for the Regional Community (download PDF)
  • Michelle Lennihan, Regional Innovations Initiative, Council on Competitiveness, (download PowerPoint)
    
• Notes

Friday May 16

Morning Plenary Program

1. Morning Remarks—Doug Henton, Collaborative Economics
2. Louisville Metro Keynote Address—Joan Riehm, Deputy Mayor of Louisville Metro

• Overview
• Video of Keynote Presentation in QuickTime (Warning: this 35 minute video is 38MB. If you are interested in ordering a higher resolution version of this video on CD or DVD, contact ARS at info@regionalstewardship.org.)
• Refer to Keynote PowerPoint Presentation for visuals.
• Notes

3. Peer-to-Peer Sessions

• Cross-Sectoral Multi-Jurisdictional Regional Partnerships (download PDF)
• Regional Indicators Projects (download PDF)
• Cross-Sectoral Regional Partnerships and Regional Indicators Affinity Group memoranda (download PDF)