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CENTER FOR
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The Center works to
solve our region's
toughest problems
by engaging
diverse LEADERS,
providing impaciful
RESEARCH,
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Leadership
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RESULTS- life changing crrimunityprojects and
850 civic leaders working to build a better
region.
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Leadership Forum Results
Among the issues tackled:
Immigration reform
Childhood nutrition
Electronic access to medical records
Human tratticking
Low-income housing
AIDS education and outreach
Feeding the hungry
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Our region's report card on factors necessary to become
a competitive, sustainable region for the 21st century.
Community Indicators make quality-of-place a
tangible and measurable issue
Each report captures longitudinal trends affecting Houston
and compares us to other regions across the nation.
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Solutions
What Will Your Future Be?
The Center works toward
solutions by planning,
educating, and collaborating — using
community briefings, salons,
roundtables, and carefully targeted
Center-led initiatives.
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Early Childhood Education
Preschool For All report, 2002
Preschool rating system, 2004
Collaborative for Children founded
Early to Rise petition campaign, 2013
Early Matters — Business/ Education coalition
HB4 passed by Texas Legislature, 2015

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Early Childhood Education
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A Historic Coalition on Early Education
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Catch and Release
Greater Houston HealthConnect
° Leadership Forum Learning Journey
identifies issue: different platforms
for electronic health records, 2007
° CHF incubates solution, 2007 to 2010:
In partnership with Harris County
Healthcare Alliance, built a plan, budget,
board, bylaws; helped raise $ to launch
° Now serving a population of 6 mi| |ion+
across 20 counties
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Connecting Healthcare in Southeast Texas
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We Can Do It!
Talent Dividend/ My Degree Counts
- Took the lead for Houston's Talent Dividend
competition (sponsored by CEOs for Cities),
building a coalition of leaders to increase
degree attainment across the region
° Houston region awarded almost 33% more
AA degrees and more than 14% more BA
and higher degrees than at competition start
° Continuing the work as My Degree Counts,
M ‘ g_ focusing on access and persistence
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What is Civic Vitality?
Above all, it's about. ..
Engagement and Opportunity
* Strong Communities
* Political Participation
* Social Inclusion
* Philanthropy & Volunteerism

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Racial & Gender Income Disparities
Women make 82 cents for every dollar earned by
men in Houston . . . the gender wage gap grows
worse the more educated you are!
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Racial & Gender Income Disparities
Percent making Percent making
under $25,000 over $100,000
Black Households
Hispanic Households
Asian Households
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Issues of economic inclusion have
long been recognized in Houston
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To the fleetest goes the race, but we've all got to eat.
- Jesse Jones, 1937
Jones guided America out of the Great Depression
as FDR's Chairman of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation

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Concluding Themes
‘Ir Diversity is a strength and a challenge:
* The least engaged & most disadvantaged
segments of our population — those with the least
social capital — are also the fastest growing.