program committee meeting july 27, 2010. 2 agenda 1. welcome and introductions 2. responsibilities...
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Program Committee Meeting
July 27, 2010
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Agenda
1. Welcome and Introductions 2. Responsibilities of Program Committee 3. Setting the Organization's Programmatic Priorities:
Defining Living Cities’ Bullseye4. The Integration Initiative5. Ratifying Strategic Issues/Strand R&D5. Defining the Committee's Knowledge and Evaluation
Strategy 6. Intranet Roll-Out7. Calendar and Next Steps
Tuesday, July 27: 10am-1pm ETDial-in (866) 910-4857, code 381034
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Program Committee Charge
• Set the organization's programmatic priorities• Oversee the Integration Initiative• Set R&D strategies and manage working
groups• Certify emerging strategies and ensure overall
programmatic alignment
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PEOPLEJob Preparation:
The Intersection of the Education Pipeline and Workforce Preparation
•Low-Income people are prepared to enter jobs and achieve economic stability
PLACEHousing &
Transportation:Integrated Systems
•Options are available enabling low-income people to enter jobs and achieve economic stability
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
Pathways to the Mainstream Economy:
•Low-income people are employed in jobs that promote economic stability
Members’ Activities:
•Grants
•Loans
•PRI’s
•Talent
•Knowledge
The Integration Initiative[$15 million in grants +PRIs + Loans]Integrative approaches among municipal actors in five citiesCapital and GrantsConveneAdvocate police changesCapture and reflect Knowledge and Evaluation
Newark
Cleveland
Twin Cities
Detroit
Baltimore
Leadership & Influence•Influence new practices and policies•Learn from field•Boot camps•Loan Funds•Publications
Strategic R & D[$4 million in Grants + PRI + Loans]
•New approaches that close critical gaps
•Remove state And federal policybarriers•Promote broadadoption of new approaches•Municipal government network
•Cross-sector alignment•Resource alignment•Policy barriers removed•New integrative approaches proven, disseminated
•New approaches identified, proven, disseminated, institutionalized
People:Education Pipeline
Income & Assets
Place:TOD
Economic Opportunity: Green
What BenchmarksWhat Benchmarksand Qualities and Qualities
will be Paramount?will be Paramount?
What Strategies What Strategies will we employ?will we employ?
What tools/assets What tools/assets will we draw on?will we draw on?What are our priorities?What are our priorities?
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Place
Economic Opportunity Mutually reinforcing
drivers that must be simultaneously
addressed to achieve opportunity for low-
income people & places
People
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The Integration Initiative
• Winners: Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Newark, Twin Cities
• Public Launch: October• Evaluation Meeting: December• Grant Period Begins: January• First Learning Session: February
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Strategic issue R&D: overview
• Issue led rather than place led
• Issue is at the intersection of multiple areas
• Establishes intellectual leadership that can move the field in areas that are still not well understood, at an earlier, riskier stage
• Learnings/approaches can be imported from and exported to other places
• There is a gap that needs to be addressed—Significant R&D work needs to be done beyond a single place (city lab of TII)
—Not already an existing integrative vehicle
—Nobody else is doing it (at scale)
• LC is well positioned – comparative advantage well suited to solve the problem
• Members support it
• Initiative can create high impact—LC can learn and leverage at scale
—It is the right time to do it given current dynamics, e.g. at federal level
DRAFT
Selection criteria
Description Outcomes• New successful approaches are identified,
implemented, and institutionalized• Build new approaches that close critical gaps
in the field
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Opportunity
Place
People
Strands Potential Issue Areas
Justice
Job creation
Small businesses
Education
Housing
Workforce
Asset-building
Transportation
Safety
Health
Range of Options Considered
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People Opportunity
Place
• Education Pipeline
• Scaled Strategies in Asset Building
• Transit-Oriented Development
• Green Economy with Job Growth Emphasis
Strategic Issues/Strands
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Strategic issue R&D: priorities
People: education pipeline(no working group)
• Create new civic infrastructure across pipeline and promote accountability for results using data (Strive)
• Grant: data-driven, cross-sector partnerships
• Policy: mechanisms requiring public data
• Capital: investing in breakthrough strategies
•Cross-sector, cross-silo solutions required
•R&D investments needed
•Private sector leadership required for success
People: Income and assets(working group)
• Integration of asset building approaches across public agencies to advance economic self sufficiency at scale
• Dedicated working group• Grants: scale technology efforts • Policy: advance municipal
strategies• Capital: investing in
breakthrough strategies
•Alignment of philanthropy, financial institutions and policy required
•No integrative efforts in place
Strategic issue What is the focus? What are the levers? Why Living Cities?
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Strategic issue R&D: priorities
Opportunity: Clean green economy(working group)
• Explore job creation in green manufacturing and services
• Dedicated working group• Grant: retrofitting (TBD)• Policy: energy efficiency demand• Capital: green enterprises that
employ low-income individuals
•Member investments not aligned
•LC can de-risk future member investments
Place: TOD(working group)
• Advance policy and financial mechanisms to incentivize development that benefits low-income people
• Dedicated working group• Grant: support local efforts• Policy: enable equity and
promote new financing models and mechanisms
• Capital: facilitate equitable TOD
•Member investments not aligned
•Limited participation of private sector
•Cross-sector, cross-silo solutions needed
Strategic issue What is the focus? What are the levers? Why Living Cities?
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– Enable members with specific substantive interests (both from the grant & loan perspective) to focus deeply together using limited but diverse LC tools (grants, PRIs, loans, policy), not just limited LC grant funds
– Enable goal from Bridgespan Assessment of aligning individual member portfolios in a substantive area with other member portfolios toward a common R&D purpose
– Enable other non-LC funders (new affiliates) to participate and co-invest in an R&D strategy without full LC membership
Purpose of Working Groups
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The Working Groups
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What Will the Working Groups Do?The Working Groups will: 1. Work through a systematic process to frame the
issue and develop a Living Cities point of view through aggressive member and expert engagement and discovery;
2. Invite the broader field to participate in a disruptive frame (green boot camp);
3. Create the opportunity for members to align their strategies and/or structure co-investment;
4. Stimulate disruption in the broader field through competitive RFPs and/or make “just-in-time” investments of grants and/or PRIs that formalize emerging partnerships and drive early programmatic experimentation.
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Sample Working Group
Ongoing Alignment of Member Strategy
PRIs to advance
new financing structures
Joint Funding of Sustainable
Communities Boot Camp
Living Cities Small Grants
to leading TOD
collaboratives
PMI cohort and
technical assistance
grants
TOD Learnings from TII
cities
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Working Group 2010 Milestones
• All workgroups launched by September• TOD and Green Economy work plans finalized
October• Income & Assets work plan finalized
December
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Knowledge and Evaluation
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Learning Activities and Outputs: Committee and Working Groups
Planning Learning and reflection activities Formal dissemination
K&E plan
K&E plan and metrics for each grant or
investment
Committee / group meeting notes
Charter and archive
Convenings and learning outputs
Review meeting notes
Material resides in dedicated intranet space
Internal
Coalesce learning into final deliverables (report,
video, wikis), post to intranet, push via update
to members
External
Learnings feed into external knowledge
products pipeline
Follow-up action plan
Next steps from committee learning
Committee / group working approach
and communication plan
Milestones, metrics and assessments
Resource area, participant posting
Blogs and discussion forum
Note: Items in gray text are secondary priorities
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•Intranet
•Calendar and Next Steps
Final Agenda Items: