Sacramento Partnership for Prosperity Steps into Action

Partnership for Prosperity championed by Valley Vision of Sacramento releases most recent updates:

Partnership for Prosperity’s Action Teams making progress

Partnership has launched five Action Teams to identify the specific tactics, timelines, and measures of success that will be used to carry out the five strategies in our regional business plan. Here are updates for each of the Action Teams:

* The Clean Energy Technology Action Team is working to actualize an annual Clean Energy Technology conference in Sacramento slated for kick-off in February 2007. CET members aim to make our region the hub of clean energy technologies and hope the conference will attract participants from around the world. A main idea for the conference is a competition among the best minds and ideas from the field with the winners awarded prize money and investments from venture capitalists.

* The Business Development team is exploring business retention and expansion tools to support a comprehensive economic development strategy. Specifically, the Sacramento Metro Chamber has led an effort to facilitate the operation of a region-wide business retention and expansion strategy called BizPulse. The Metro Chamber is currently gauging interest from potential investors that includes cities, counties and other interested parties.

* The High School and Post Secondary education teams are aligning their work with LEED’s (Linking Education and Economic Development) new strategic plan. Champions from both Action Teams have been meeting with LEED staff and board members to determine how PFP and LEED can merge their efforts to accomplish shared regional goals for education.

* The Civic Amenities team is actively pursuing grant funding to support a bottom-up effort to identify the civic amenities most needed and supported by residents of the Sacramento region. This effort will be facilitated with the creation of a civic amenities map that shows existing and potential arts, entertainment, and cultural assets across the region.

Partnership fosters the development of our regional identity

Meanwhile, our volunteer group of top regional communications and marketing pros is in the thick of its work on a marketing plan and toolkit to support the Partnership and the region both within our borders and outside them. The group recently completed a brainstorming exercise designed to envision the region in 2010, once the Partnership’s regional business plan has been implemented. This storytelling will help shape a creative brief and eventually our “toolkit” of talking points, advertising materials, graphics and other products supporting PFP. Prosper Magazine recently included the project in an article on regional rebranding efforts.

Go Funai
Project Associate
Valley Vision

Thanks Go for the update. This week I will blog about my action plan for the region. What are your thoughts about the Partnership for Prosperity? Pie in the Sky or Past Due? Comment Here!