The Strategic Project Teams are taking action. Each team has formulated draft project PLANs. Champions met last week to review drafts and provide feedback on the first thirteen questions (see link below). All the teams are in full swing, holding meetings and making progress. Great work everyone. Our next full FoT meeting will be March 21, 4:30pm at Rocket Hall – be sure to save the date. More info to come.

 

 

http://tinyurl.com/FoTProjectPlans

An example of the ingenuity and hard work sweeping our country can be seen with the Mayors Challenge (see the link below). They will be awarding four cities $1mil and one city $5mil for an innovative idea. They have narrowed over 300 submitted ideas down to the top twenty. Take a look – our projects are on par with some of the most innovative cities in the country.

http://tinyurl.com/Mayor-Challenge

Here is a quote, “For the purposes of the Mayors Challenge, we define a “great idea” as one that shows bold and innovative thinking, a solid implementation plan, likelihood of creating measurable impact, and high feasibility of working in other cities, too. These ideas can either be visionary, back-of-the-napkin ideas or things you’ve started (or started developing) that you now will take to completely new levels. The Mayors Challenge aims to encourage you to take any idea and make it bigger, better, and more impactful — to innovate!

This is just one example of many funding opportunities for innovative evidence-based solutions. We are on track to being one of the most innovative cities in our country. Once teams finish their plans, we will be able to proactively go after similar opportunities.

To those of you already involved with one of the 2013 Strategic Projects, keep up the great work. If you would like to contribute to one of the project teams, in any way you are able, go to www.thefutureoftoledo.com/signup and get in on the action.

The Strategic Project Teams are taking action. Each team has formulated draft project PLANs. Champions met last week to review drafts and provide feedback on the first thirteen questions (see link below). All the teams are in full swing, holding meetings and making progress. Great work everyone. Our next full FoT meeting will be March 21, 4:30pm at Rocket Hall – be sure to save the date. More info to come.