Economic Development: Lessons from Detroit - Drawing on Detroit

What are some of the specific strategies and organizational structures that have emerged in Detroit to address planning, entrepreneurship and the creative economy, and how do they relate to approaches and practices found in other cities?

Moderator
Wendy Jackson
Interim Co-Managing Director, Detroit Program, The Kresge Foundation

Economic Development

Michael Forsyth
Motor City Match Program Manager, REVOLVE Detroit

Teresa Lynch
Principal, Mass Economics

Drawing explicitly on Detroit—and considering how approaches there might benefit other cities facing similar urban challenges—policy makers, thought leaders, and practitioners met for an important discussion exploring:

-The enabling conditions necessary to help stabilize cities and neighborhoods

-Tactics that build economic, social and political momentum

-How philanthropy, the nonprofit sector and government can ignite partnerships and investments that create lasting change

-Emerging leadership models for urban transformation.