Dear AITF Members:
This tenth anniversary year has been very eventful so far, as we are at the midway point in 2019. Here are a few recent developments:
- In May, we held our first domestic Local Strategic Dialogue, hosted by the University of San Diego. Our Dialogues are designed to convene roughly 20 to 30 partners in a particular geographic area to help anchor institutions develop unprecedented collaboration to address a priority issue facing their local community. This Dialogue, hosted by the University's President James Harris in collaboration with USD's Karen and Tom Mulvaney Center and the Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate, addressed affordable housing, particularly moderate-income housing, termed, the “missing middle”. The outcome of the discussion was to build collective interest among local anchor institutions in San Diego to contribute to a Missing Middle Fund, which can encourage developers to build housing that is affordable to middle income workers, who are often the majority of employees at anchor institutions.
- Earlier this month, we continued our collaboration with the Council of Europe when we co-convened a meeting of about 30 European leaders regarding the Local Mission of Higher Education at the Council of Europe’s headquarters in Strasbourg, France on June 18-19. This meeting underlined the importance of seeking to establish more organized European cooperation on this topic. The major next step from this conversation is to establish a task force including representatives of the Council of Europe, AITF, and representatives of organizations such as the International Association of Universities and the European University Association, and possibly a few universities to develop a concrete proposal on the objectives, priorities, and organization of such cooperation. AITF will be a source of advice and assistance as this effort progresses.
We look forward to our conference and other exciting developments described below during the remainder of this momentous year.
Best Regards,
David
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Social Determinants of Health Webinar
Looking ahead, please save the date for 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.
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Tenth Anniversary Conference
Also, remember that our Tenth Anniversary Conference will take place on October 24 and 25 in New York City at the Sheraton Times Square Hotel. The conference will provide an opportunity to learn more about the work of our partners in San Diego and Europe. The conference will also include some of the important work of AITF’s Subgroups, including the Health Professionals Subgroup’s work on the Social Determinants of Health, and the Higher Education Presidential Subgroup’s efforts on the next generation of anchor leadership.
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Anchor Institution Community Partnership Award
This year’s
Anchor Institution Community Partnership Award
goes to
Nancy Cantor
, Chancellor, Rutgers University-Newark. The award will be presented at the conference.
Our Tenth Anniversary Conference is an important milestone in AITF’s evolution and the growth of this field. We hope that many sponsors will acknowledge this development and support this momentous occasion. If you are interested, please review our
sponsorship levels
to see how you can support AITF and the conference and/or place an ad in the conference program. We are very appreciative of those of you who have already agreed to sponsor, including the Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation, Hahne and Company, Prudential Financial, the Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania, and Rutgers University Newark.
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Nancy Cantor | Rutgers University - Newark
At Rutgers University-Newark, she leads and promulgates efforts to leverage the university's many strengths, particularly its exceptional diversity, tradition of high-impact research, and role as an anchor institution in Newark, New Jersey,...
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www.newark.rutgers.edu
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Here are some relevant news items from our field:
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How can cities engage their citizens? Museums can show...
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apolitical.co
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Urban scholar: Erie 'leading' with redevelopment strategy
Urban expert Bruce Katz visited Erie Monday. Erie's efforts to revitalize its downtown are catching attention beyond the city limits. In a speech Monday in Erie, urban expert Bruce Katz said the investments of Erie's anchor institutions, such as...
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www.goerie.com
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