CEOs for Cities to Launch VELOCITY

Posted by Sheila Redick on September 09, 2009 | News

CHICAGO – In a push to accelerate solutions to tackle our nation’s most pressing challenges while delivering a much-sought after new American dream for citizens, CEOs for Cities will launch VELOCITY, a national movement to re-imagine, reinvent and revitalize American cities.

"Its purpose is to create an energizing agenda for next generation cities and nurture the initiatives needed to advance that agenda.  We want to pull it all together in a way that defines a new aspirational lifestyle for Americans, one that eventually becomes the ‘new normal,’” said Carol Coletta, president and CEO of CEOs for Cities, a national network of urban leaders from the philanthropic, business, education, civic and public sectors dedicated to building and sustaining the next generation of great American cities.

The VELOCITY movement begins with a two-day creative salon of 40 select national experts from a variety of fields and hosted by community and business leaders in Grand Rapids on Sept. 14-15. 

The VELOCITY salon, which is invitation only, will produce a compelling narrative with a set of clear, shared principles for the next generation of great American cities along with ideas and support for a series of existing and emerging experiments that will deliver a…

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