The Leadership Revenue and Competitors

As a region, Baltimore confronts an array of problems and opportunities. As a region, we have significant liabilities and tremendous assets. What could make Baltimore a more vibrant and thriving metropolitan region for everyone, where all citizens inclusively experience rising standards of living, longer life expectancies, and greater meaning and fulfillment in their lives? What could build the resiliency and creativity to address future problems? We believe that the barriers and catalysts to working on these issues lie in how things get done in the region: the cultures, networks, organizations, and other social structures through which people try to make progress on things that are important to them. We believe that if we can help the region’s citizens, individually and collectively, to more effectively make progress, we can transform Greater Baltimore into an even more thriving, vibrant, equitable community of people who care deeply for one another and the metropolitan region we collectively call home. What do we mean by more effectively making progress? We mean action characterized by the highest aspirations and ideals of our democratic society: inclusivity, equity, and justice, compassion, cooperation, and creativity. How can we do this? By helping citizens develop the skills, knowledge, behaviors, and perspectives to think and act more effectively, by fostering relationships that create a dense web of social capital, by creating forum, places, and resources that support citizens in the work they want to do. We won’t be the ones who start new companies; we’ll strengthen the people who do and can. We won’t be the ones who increase high-school graduation rates and close racial disparities in K-12 education; we’ll support the people who will.