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Praxis Strategy Group President to speak at the Annual School of Public Affairs Leadership Conference

By Dave Roby, March 8, 2010
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Dr. Delore Zimmerman

The Center for the Study of Government and the Individual will be co-sponsoring the Annual School of Public Affairs Leadership Conference at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs on Thursday, April 8, 2010.  The Center will be bringing in David Osborne and Delore Zimmerman.

David Osborne is the author of the best seller “Reinventing Government” and co-author of “The Price of Government: Getting the Results We Need in an Age of Permanent Fiscal Crisis.”  He also served as senior advisor to Vice President Gore.

Delore Zimmerman, Ph.D., President of Praxis Strategy Group, is a strategy consultant with twenty-five years of domestic and international experience working with local and regional economic development groups, businesses and universities.  He is the publisher of http://www.newgeography.com/, a website devoted to analyzing and discussing the places where we live and work.  As a researcher he has been awarded eight Small Business Innovation Research awards to develop leading-edge practices and tools for use by development professionals and community leaders to work more effectively with entrepreneurs and to build competitive, innovation based economies in the global, networked economy.

The conference will be held on Thursday, April 8, 2010, 8:00am to 5:00pm.

To reserve a spot in the conference, please contact Jane Muller, jmuller@uccs.edu or 719.255.4093.

Praxis Strategy Group is a partner with the Flint Group

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Coming SOON – Joel Kotkin’s book THE NEXT HUNDRED MILLION: America in 2050

By Dave Roby, January 18, 2010

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THE NEXT HUNDRED MILLION: America in 2050
By Joel Kotkin

Release date: February 4, 2010. Published by The Penguin Press

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In stark contrast to the rest of the world’s advanced nations, the United States is growing at a record rate and, according to census projections, will be home to four hundred million Americans by 2050. This projected rise in population is the strongest indicator of our long-term economic strength, Joel Kotkin believes, and will make us more diverse and more competitive than any nation on earth.

Drawing on prodigious research, firsthand reportage, and historical analysis, The Next Hundred Million reveals how this unprecedented growth will take physical shape and change the face of America. The majority of additional hundred million Americans will find their homes in suburbia, though the suburbs of tomorrow will not resemble the Levittowns of the 1950s or the sprawling exurbs of the late twentieth century. The suburbs of the twenty-first century will be less reliant on major cities for jobs and other amenities and, as a result, more energy efficient. Suburbs will also be the melting pots of the future as more and more immigrants opt for dispersed living over crowded inner cities and the majority in the United States becomes nonwhite by 2050.

The Next Hundred Million provides a vivid snapshot of America in 2050 by focusing not on power brokers, policy disputes, or abstract trends, but rather on the evolution of the more intimate units of American society—families, towns, neighborhoods, industries. It is upon the success or failure of these communities, Kotkin argues, that the American future rests.

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Joel Kotkin is executive editor of NewGeography.com and is a presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University. He is author of The City: A Global History and is finishing a book on the American future.

Joel serves as a Senior Consultant with Praxis Strategy Group a partner with the Flint Group

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Realizing Our Broadband Future – A Webinar

By Dave Roby, October 12, 2009

NewGeography.com publisher & Praxis Strategy Group President & CEO Dr. Delore Zimmerman hosted a webinar recently discussing the future of rural america. The webinar is part of the Rural Broadband Initiative organized by Northern Minnesota’s Blandin Foundation.

From Blandin:
If you are interested in rural community and economic development trends, this webinar is for you.

Delore Zimmerman will provide guidance for rural community leaders about development trends and the steps communities must take to increase their investment attractiveness.

The role that technology plays in increasing economic vitality will be presented both in theory and practice, and Delore will include information about successful regional economic development strategies.

Delore is a strategy consultant with twenty-five years of domestic and international experience working with local and regional economic development groups, companies and universities. He co-developed the High-Performance Community Initiative while a Senior Fellow at the Denver-based Center for the New West and has spearheaded its development and deployment for 10 years.

Praxis Strategy Group is a partner of the Flint Group. http://www.praxissg.com

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