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We must have strong cities to have a strong America.
CEOs for Cities is a national network of urban leaders dedicated to creating next generation cities that hold the answers to many of the challenges our nation faces.
If you care about keeping America globally competitive, fostering innovation, providing citizens access to opportunity and education, combating climate change, improving healthcare outcomes and learning how diverse people can co-exist peacefully, then you must be concerned about cities because that is where the solutions to these challenges will be met.
You can’t have a strong America without strong cities.
At CEOs for Cities, we work with our cross-sector network of urban leaders to create next generation cities that excel in talent, connections, innovation and distinctiveness and are therefore able to best address the challenges of the day.
The Talented City
Developing, maximizing, attracting and retaining talent.
The Innovative City
Fostering innovation and entrepreneurship.
The Connected City
Fostering connections that link people with ideas to talent, capital and markets; cities to regions; and regions to the global economy.
The Distinctive City
Capitalizing on local differences to build local economic opportunity.
We help build next generation cities by:
- Connecting urban leaders to powerful ideas and each other
- Mobilizing new urban activists to execute real change in cities
- Producing new urban insights that lay out the best opportunities for cities, and the people who live in them, to succeed
- Telling powerful stories about the potential of cities to solve our most pressing problems
Want to change the world? Start with your city.
Cities are the solution.
History:
CEOs for Cities was founded in 2001 by Paul Grogan, author of Comeback Cities and President of the Boston Foundation. Mayor Richard M. Daley of Chicago, Dr. Eugene Trani, President of Virginia Commonwealth University, and Charles Ratner, CEO and President of Forest City Enterprises are co-chairs. CEOs for Cities is funded by contributions from its network members and the generous support of The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation the Rockefeller Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust and the Hyde Family Foundations. For more information, go to www.ceosforcities.org or contact us at ceos@ceosforcities.org or 312.553.4630.
Interested in joining? Contact Bridget Marquis at bmarquis@ceosforcities.org.