Program Committee Meeting

1. Program Committee Meeting July 27, 2010

2. Agenda Tuesday, July 27: 10am-1pm ETDial-in (866) 910-4857, code 381034 1. Welcome and Introductions 2. Responsibilities of Program Committee 3. Setting the Organization's Programmatic Priorities: Defining Living Cities’ Bullseye 4. The Integration Initiative 5. Ratifying Strategic Issues/Strand R&D 5. Defining the Committee's Knowledge and Evaluation Strategy 6. Intranet Roll-Out 7. Calendar and Next Steps

3. 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

4. What are our priorities? What tools/assets will we draw on? What Strategies will we employ? What Benchmarks and Qualities will be Paramount? • PEOPLE • Job Preparation: • The Intersection of the Education Pipeline and Workforce Preparation • Low-Income people are prepared to enter jobs and achieve economic stability • Remove state • And federal policy • barriers • Promote broad • adoption of new • approaches • Municipal • government network • Leadership • & Influence • Influence new • practices and • policies • Learn from field • Boot camps • Loan Funds • Publications • The Integration Initiative • [$15 million in grants + • PRIs + Loans] • Integrative approaches among • municipal actors in five cities • Capital and Grants • Convene • Advocate police changes • Capture and reflect • Knowledge and Evaluation • Members’ • Activities: • Grants • Loans • PRI’s • Talent • Knowledge • Cross-sector • alignment • Resource • alignment • Policy barriers • removed • New integrative • approaches proven, • disseminated • PLACE • Housing & Transportation: • Integrated Systems • Options are available enabling low-income people to enter jobs and achieve economic stability • Strategic • R & D • [$4 million in • Grants + PRI + • Loans] • New approaches • that close critical • gaps Baltimore Cleveland • New approaches • identified, proven, • disseminated, • institutionalized • ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY • Pathways to the Mainstream Economy: • Low-income people are employed in jobs that promote economic stability Detroit Newark People: Education Pipeline Income & Assets Twin Cities Place: TOD Economic Opportunity: Green

5. Economic Opportunity Place People Mutually reinforcing drivers that must be simultaneously addressed to achieve opportunity for low-income people & places

6. The Integration Initiative • Winners: Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Newark, Twin Cities • Public Launch: October • Evaluation Meeting: December • Grant Period Begins: January • First Learning Session: February

7. Strategic issue R&D: overview DRAFT Outcomes Description • New successful approaches are identified, implemented, and institutionalized • Build new approaches that close critical gaps in the field Selection criteria • 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

8. Range of Options Considered Strands Potential Issue Areas Education People Workforce Asset-building Housing Place Transportation Health Safety Justice Opportunity Job creation Small businesses

9. Strategic Issues/Strands • Education Pipeline • Scaled Strategies in Asset Building • Green Economy with Job Growth Emphasis People Opportunity • Transit-Oriented Development Place

10. Strategic issue R&D: priorities Strategic issue What is the focus? What are the levers? Why Living Cities?

11. Strategic issue R&D: priorities Strategic issue What is the focus? What are the levers? Why Living Cities?

12. 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

13. The Working Groups

14. What Will the Working Groups Do? The Working Groups will: 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; Invite the broader field to participate in a disruptive frame (green boot camp); Create the opportunity for members to align their strategies and/or structure co-investment; 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.

15. Sample Working Group Ongoing Alignment of Member Strategy PRIs to advance new financing structures Joint Funding of Sustainable Communities Boot Camp PMI cohort and technical assistance grants TOD Living Cities Small Grants to leading TOD collaboratives Learnings from TII cities

16. Working Group 2010 Milestones All workgroups launched by September TOD and Green Economy work plans finalized October Income & Assets work plan finalized December

17. Knowledge and Evaluation

18. Charter and archive Committee / group meeting notes Learning Activities and Outputs: Committee and Working Groups Formal dissemination Planning Learning and reflection activities K&E plan Internal Coalesce learning into final deliverables (report, video, wikis), post to intranet, push via update to members Review meeting notes Convenings and learning outputs K&E plan and metrics for each grant or investment External Learnings feed into external knowledge products pipeline Resource area, participant posting Milestones, metrics and assessments Blogs and discussion forum Committee / group working approach and communication plan Follow-up action plan Next steps from committee learning Material resides in dedicated intranet space Note: Items in gray text are secondary priorities

19. Final Agenda Items: • Intranet • Calendar and Next Steps