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C I T Y   A W A K E   D E L E G A T E SPartnership Proposal

City Awake Delegates is a nine-month interactive platform designed to mobilize and empower young adults to become

valued stakeholders in the civic dialogue of Greater Boston.

Boston is home to the largest proportion of young adults of any major US city, passing famously young cities such as

Austin and Washington. However, young adults – people between ages of 21 and 39 years old – are ignored and

overlooked when discussing the future of Greater Boston.

City Awake will select 500 Delegates – nominated representatives from a diverse coalition of up to 200 businesses,

nonprofits and select individuals – to participate in a series of programming focused on building community, exploring

various issues facing Greater Boston and formalizing shared priorities as a generation.

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33%

$1B

45%

Young adults make up more than athird of Boston’s population, with evenhigher percentages in Cambridge (44.5)

and Somerville (44)

Young adults make up about 45percent of eligible voters and nearly

half the city’s workforce.

Young adults are an economicengine, a $1 billion annually in goods

and services to Boston.

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Phase 1: Connect & Explore (Fall 2016)The first few months of the program will bededicated to building community and exploringvarious issues facing Greater Boston.

Phase 2: Ideate & Actualize (Winer 2016-Spring2017) The program will then transition to focuson ideating and actualizing solutions to the issuespresented in Phase 1.

Retreats (10 attendees) – weekend retreatswhere Delegates dive deeper into specificissues and ideate possible solutions. Labs (50-100 attendees) – design thinkingsessions to discuss and develop solutions.End of Year Celebration (500+ attendees) – afinale to recap the last year and to release areport featuring the very best ideas proposedby the Delegates to improve Greater Boston.

Our Convention (500+ attendees) – a day-long summit at the Edward M. KennedyInstitute where all 500 Delegates willattend as an orientation and to start thedialogue on the future of Greater Boston.The event is scheduled for Monday,September 26, 2016. Forums (100-200 attendees) – TED stylepresentations from issue experts andleading entrepreneurs to educate theDelegates on topical issues facing GreaterBoston.

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Phase 3: Demand Building (Summer 2017)The report released in Phase 2 will be the frameworkfor advancing discussion during local elections in2017 – most specifically the Boston mayoral race.

Phase 4: Rinse & Repeat (Fall 2017)Start programming for new cohort of 500 Delegatesand provide an alumni platform (“Superdelegates”)for the previous class.

A majority of the programming will be optional toDelegates. Polling will occur periodically throughoutthe programming.

During Our Convention, for example, Delegates willbe asked to share their opinion on topical issues suchas charter schools and marijuana legalization. Bothissues are featured on upcoming ballot measures inNovember 2016.

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City Awake will partner with the Boston IndicatorsProject - an initiative of the Boston Foundation.

Specifically, City Awake will incorporate eight issuespresented by the Boston Indicators Project and includethem as the foundation for its programming.

For example, there will be a forum, retreat and lab on eachspecific issue (with sample sub topics) mentioned below.

Cultural Life & Arts- Cultural Equity- Cultural Vibrancy- Arts Funding &Venues

Economy- Economic Mobility- Workforce Development- Innovation Equity

Education- STEM- MESH- Innovation Equity

Environment- Energy Consumption- Waterfront Revitalization- Green Space

Health- Food Deserts- Opiate Crisis- Affordable Healthcare

Housing- Middle Market Housing- Affordable Housing- Homelessness

Public Safety- Marijuana Legalization- Community-PoliceRelationships

Transportation- MBTA Improvements- MBTA Alternatives- Transportation Equity

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BACKGROUND

17 weekend retreats across New Englandwith 137 participants (55% women/42%racial minorities) 3 exchanges where a delegation of youngadults from Greater Boston visitedChicago, Austin and Iceland to learn bestpractices from each city An ongoing community (called ‘OurCommonwealth’) which self-organizedfrequent recreational, educational andcivic activities including a monthlywomen’s brunch, thematic discussions onrace and education and museum visits A half day convening (‘Our Convention’)with 300+ young adults (60% women/46%racial minorities) to discuss the future ofGreater Boston at the Edward M. KennedyInstitute as part of HUBweek o 100+nominating partners & 31 visible emergingleaders as co-chairs Interactive forums on Boston 2024 (200+RSVPs) and Boston Creates (170+ RSVPs)

City Awake piloted a number of initiatives in2015 to assess the need for such a program. Thisincluded:

City Awake will incorporate best practices from asuccessful 2015 in executing a cohesive programin 2016 and beyond.

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PresentingPartner

Naming rights. Example "City Awake Delegates presented by..."

Key adviser on content and strategy of City Awake Delegates and

related programming

Keynote opportunities and lead brand visibility at all major

convenings (500+ attendees) including Our Convention and the end

of year finale.

Welcoming remarks of final report featuring the best ideas produced

by delegates.

Prominent brand visibility across all programming for City Awake,

totaling over 30 events and multiple publications

Access to curated cohort of 500 recognized next generation leaders

and ~200 nominating organizations

Up to 25 nominations for employees to participate in City Awake

Delegates

$75,0002 spots available 

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IssuePartner

Key adviser on designated issue throughout all programming and

publications including speaker outreach and topic selection

Exclusive recognition of all related programming and publications

focused on designated issue

Moderator opportunity at designated issue panel at Our Convention

and brand visibility throuhgout the event

Welcoming remarks and moderator opportunities at designed issue

forum and lab

Lead visibility at designated issue forum, retreat and lab

Brief essay introducing designated issue chapter in the final report

featuring the best ideas produced by delegates.

Customized event focused on designated issue in addition to the forum,

retreat and lab.

Access to curated cohort of 500 recognized next generation leaders

Up to 10 nominations for employees to participate in City Awake

Delegates

$15,0001 spot available per issue

EconomyCultural Life & the ArtsEducationEnvironment

HealthHousingPublic SafetyTransportation

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V I T A M I N F R E S H . N E T

OrganizationsAIGA BostonASPIREBig Brothers of Massachusetts BayBig Sister Association of Greater BostonBoston CaresBoston NaturalsBoston Network for International DevelopmentBoston RotaractBoston Undergraduate InnovatorsBoston Young Healthcare ProfessionalsBoys and Girls Club of BostonBuilding ImpactCenter for Collaborative LeadershipCiti Performing Arts CenterCombined Jewish PhilanthropiesCoaching 4 ChangeThe CollectiveCommonwealth KitchenEmerging Practioners in PhilanthrophyFWD.usGeneral AssemblyGlobal Shapers, World Economic ForumGLOWGreater Boston Policy InitiativeInstitute for Nonprofit Management LeadershipImpact Hub BostonIntelligent MischiefLearnLaunchMassachusetts Nonprofit NetworkMicrosoftMITXNational Black Women SocietyNew Leaders Council

New Sector Alliance

New England Venture Network

Pakathon

University of Massachusetts Boston

StartingBloc

Startup Institute

Taiwanese American Professional Association

United Way

ONEin3 Boston

Partners in Health

Resource Generation

Roosevelt Boston

Sasaki

She Geeks Out

TUGG

Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts

WeWork

WorldBoston

Young Education Professionals

YW Boston

Y2Y Boston

Leadership Council

Alicia Adamson, Founder, National Black Women Society

Amanda Torres, Founder, MassLEAP

Brad McNamara, Founder, Freight Farms

Chris Dempsey, Co­Chair, No Boston Olympics

Daquan Oliver, Executive Director, WeThrive

David Delmar, Executive Director, Resilient Coders

Devin Cole, Director of Business Development, WorkBar

Diana Hwang, Founder, Asian American Women's Political

Initiative

Elsa Sze, Founder, Agora

Emily Cherniak, Executive Director, New Politics

Gena Ricciardi, Business Development Lead, The Welcoming

Committee

Gillian Pressman, MA Executive Director, Generation Citizen

Jon Feinman, Executive Director, InnerCity Weightlifting

Katherine Macdonald, Executive Director, CleanTech Northeast

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Katrina Melesciuc, Co­Founder, Women's iLab

Lauren Abda, Director, BranchFood

Marquis Taylor, Executive Director, Coaching 4 Change

Meghan Verna Joyce, Regional General Manager, Uber

Nadeem Mazen, City Councilor, City of Cambridge

Nathan Rothstein, President, Project Repat

Nicole Fichera, General Manager, District Hall

Nondini Naqui, President, Society of Grownups

Sam Aquillano, Executive Director, Design Museum Foundation

Sam Greenberg, Co­Director, Y2& Harvard Square

Sara Bartolino, Executive Director, Transforming Education

Sarah Rosenkrantz, Co­Director, Y2Y Harvard Square

Scott Bailey, Managing Director, MassChallenge

Sean O'Conner,Founder, The Boston Calendar

Stephan Chan, Chief of Staff, The Boston Foundation

Taisha Sturdivant, Student, Boston college Law School

Yasmin Cruz, Senior Manager, CSR, John Hancock

Nominators select up to 5 individuals to serve as City Awake Delegates. They select individuals between the ages of 21to 39 years old. They can nominate employees, volunteers, members, customers, or friends. 

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