11/20/07
TOWN HALL MEETING TO DISCUSS "CREATING AN ENVIRONMENT ATTRACTIVE TO YOUNG MOBILE TALENT"

Flint, MI (November 20, 2007) --

Community Challenge presents “Creating an Environment Attractive to Young Mobile Talent,” a Town Hall meeting focusing on developing attractive places to live for talented young adults. This Town Hall meeting is November 29, 2007 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the Northbank Center Grand Ballroom, located at 432 N. Saginaw Street, Flint, MI.

Featured speaker Carol Coletta, is the President and CEO of CEO’s for Cities located in Chicago, IL. Coletta hosts and produces the nationally syndicated public radio program, “Smart City,” which focuses on urban life and the people, places, ideas and trends that shape cities. Coletta, in conjunction with Richard Florida, coordinated the Memphis Manifesto Summit. She also wrote the Talent Magnet Report, a blueprint to attract and retain the creative class, and co-authored Cultural Development in Creative Communities for Americans for the Arts.

The Town Hall meeting is designed to focus on one of the three tenets of the “Michigan Future” report that was discussed at the June Town Hall meeting.

The Community Challenge is an initiative dedicated to building a better community where citizens – from youth to older adults - regularly organize to bring about the change they desire; where leaders value and incorporate civic engagement as a regular component to key decision making processes related to public agenda issues; and where area non-profits have the capacity to provide a sustain-able civic engagement infrastructure to support ongoing civic engagement

The four core partners to the Community Challenge are the University of Michigan-Flint offering Resource Connection, Skill Development, and Civic Engagement workshops through the University’s Amazing U programs; the Community Foundation of Greater Flint serves as the Host Agency for the Community Challenge, providing overall administrative support of the initiative; the Resource Center offers leadership and civic engagement trainings to youth and adults in the community; and The Flint Club offering a single point of contact to connect with community engagement tools and the people that can support your community engagement work.

Funding for this initiative is provided by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the Ruth Mott Foundation, the Community Foundation of Greater Flint, with additional funding provided by The Bishop Trust, The Whiting Foundation, and additional CFGF donors.

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