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Dear AITF Members:

Our Tenth Anniversary Conference on October 24 and 25 in New York City at the Sheraton Times Square Hotel is just over a month away. Here is the  frame of the conference program , which now includes the names of most of our speakers. 

During the first day of the conference, we will hold plenary sessions on Education and Economic Development.  Among others, on our Education plenary, we will hear from Sjur Bergan, Head, Education, The Council of Europe.  Sjur and the Council have been partnering with us to build a network on the local mission of higher education in Europe.  On our Economic Development plenary, we will hear from Jim Harris, President, University of San Diego and other partners in San Diego working to expand moderate income housing – an idea that emerged through an AITF Local Strategic Dialogue.

Some highlights on the second day of the conference include our keynote speech from Andrew Delbanco, President, the Teagle Foundation as well as our Anchor Institutions Community Partnership award to Nancy Cantor, Chancellor, Rutgers University-Newark.  We will hold a series of exciting concurrent sessions and hold a dialogue on the future of anchor and community leadership for our luncheon plenary.  The second day will also include our plenary session on Health, which will include, among others, a couple of members of AITF’s Health Professionals Subgroup – Brenda Battle, Vice President for Care Delivery Innovation and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, University of Chicago Medicine and David Perlstein, CEO, SBH.  The subgroup, as indicated in the webinar announcement below, has been addressing how to apply a Social Determinants of Health lens to anchor institution-community partnerships.  

Also, during the conference, we will make a couple of important announcements regarding new AITF developments.  Overall, we are thrilled with our conference’s content.  And we hope to see many of you there.

Conference  registration remains open.  The early bird registration rate of $300 will expire in a couple of weeks.  If you intend to be with us at the conference, and you have not yet registered, please do so very soon.  You can still make hotel reservations at our  group rate .  This rate will expire in a few weeks as well.
 
Thanks very much to those of you who have already agreed to become a Sponsor, including the Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation, the Teagle Foundation, Hahne and Company, Prudential Financial, the New World Foundation, the Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania, and Rutgers University Newark.  Anyone interested in sponsoring should review our  sponsorship levels to see how you can support AITF and the conference and/or place an ad in the conference program. 


Reminder: The Health Professionals Subgroup’s upcoming webinar:

Value Added: How Anchor Institutions are Adopting
a Social Determinants of Health Lens
Sep 24, 2019 at 12:30 PM EDT

This webinar is the first in a series, which will highlight the ways in which members of the Anchor Institutions Task Force's Health Professionals Subgroup are bringing a social determinants of health lens to their community engagement. The webinar series follows the publication of a paper produced by the Subgroup,  Value Added: Adopting a Social Determinants of Health Lens ( https://www.margainc.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/AITF-White-paper-on-SDOH.pdf ). This webinar will feature the efforts of Nationwide Children's and the University of Pennsylvania. You can register for this webinar here:  https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8047198460059106059


Here are a few articles listed below.  If you have any articles our announcements you would like shared in a future message, please let me know.  
 

Best Regards,
 
David
Here are some relevant news items and articles from our field:
Carme Galve-Montore, director of Biblioteca Jaume Fuster in Barcelona, Spain, discussed smart cities as opportunities for libraries. The evolution of cities and economic development calls for a model in which libraries can be part of the future of urban planning. Libraries are trusted anchor institutions in cities, deeply invested in their relationships with citizens, Galve-Montore said, libraries are well poised to be urban partners as they have dispersed buildings, offer public technology, invest in lifelong learning, and provide social cohesion.
According to an analysis of the latest available employment data by Johns Hopkins University researchers, nonprofits had an estimated 12,488,563 workers (including all workers — full-time, part-time, and contractors) on their payrolls in 2017, slightly more than manufacturing companies, which employed 12,456,203 workers. The nonprofit world’s overtaking of manufacturing is partly the result of the slow-growing manufacturing industry. But it also shows the strength of the nonprofit world, which has been growing faster than the for-profit workforce for several years.
More than 1,000 hospital employees in the struggling Rust Belt face uncertain futures as Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheeling, West Virginia, and East Ohio Regional Hospital in nearby Martins Ferry, Ohio, are set to close by October. Hospital employees and business owners of restaurants and shops that cater to hospital workers have expressed their concerns over the negative effects of the closure of the hospitals, which are local anchor institutions.