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: