CAPITALIZING CHANGE A Strategic Vision and Priorities for the Next Decade • Fall 2012
IMAGINE… … A C I T Y where quality education is a reality regardless of income and where residents inherit a sustainable environment.
… A P L A C E already famous for its cultural
assets, that seeds creativity throughout its neighborhoods, nurtures artists, and grows larger and more diverse cultural audiences.
… A R E G I O N already teeming with world-class
health care and great universities, whose civic and public institutions are fed from the ground up by innovations and practices that change our expectations of what is possible.
… A C O M M U N I T Y where employers want to invest, young professionals want to live, and families want to raise children.
We believe that Philadelphia can be one of America’s great cities. Our region has an abundance of assets with which to work, but opportunities are tempered by significant challenges. What the region does — or fails to do — over the next decade will go a long way toward determining its national and global place.