Focusing on Outcomes
Valley Vision facilitated the development of the Business Plan for the Sacramento Region with techniques used successfully in other collaborative regional projects, such as the region's award-winning Blueprint smart-growth plan that is now a state model for integrating transportation and land use.
The road to the Partnership for Prosperity's plan included dozens of meetings and milestones, ultimately involving hundreds of leaders and community stakeholders. From our research it's an uncommonly inclusive approach to aeconomic development strategy.
In the "listen" phase, we worked to build a shared understanding about the region's economy and demographics. We gleaned economic strategy ideas from experts within and beyond the region, and identified potential new directions for the future.
The "plan" phase of the project involved prioritizing and reaching out. Our partners identified and prioritized the focus areas and strategies, and we invited stakeholders in the community to review their progress and weigh in via meetings and the Internet.
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A Regional Business Plan
The "act" phase of Partnership for Prosperity continues today – and will for the next few years.
The 34 diverse partnering organizations in the Partnership for Prosperity launched A Business Plan for the Sacramento Region in spring 2006. It includes five major strategies to ensure our continued economic prosperity and competitiveness:
- Business and government leaders will cooperate better to make this the best
place to do business in California;
- We will prove our innovation by growing our unique green energy sector;
- We will ensure high school grads are ready to continue their education and
join our quality workforce;
- We will support our colleges to produce the skilled people and new initiatives
that align with our regional economic needs;
- We will invest more in civic amenities that enhance our identity and our
quality of life.
We distributed the plan to a wide range of regional organizations and the news media, with favorable response:
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A Living Document
Partnership for Prosperity leaders established several "action teams" to implement the regional business plan. Teams include project partners, elected officials and other community leaders who meet regularly to identify and act on tactics to carry out reach strategy in the business plan.
Chairs of the overall project also meet regularly to track progress, as do "champions" of each strategy in the plan.
It's a unique level of action and accountability for a collaborative regional planning document – and one that we hope will pay dividends for the region for years to come.
Please browse our site and the action teams page to find out more about the Partnership – and how you can help!
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