Build a Network of 1,000 Regional 757 Champions Supporting the Action Framework
Build a Network of 1,000 Regional 757 Champions Supporting the Action Framework
BUILD REGIONAL UNITY
Our Initial Goal: Recruit, Inspire and Unleash the Power of 1,000 Business and Nonprofit Leaders
There are tens of thousands of businesses and nonprofits that call the 757 home. Together, they represent a vast range of industries, business models and business sizes. The 757 Action Framework is designed to have a positive impact on all.
The immediate success of the plan requires a sizeable number of leaders understanding and supporting it from day one, and the best place to start is with those businesses that are most likely to be regionally focused and have community-building mindset.
By examining the combined lists of the chambers, CIVIC Leadership Institute, Reinvent Hampton Roads and other coalition partners, we realize there are just under 6,000 business leaders who have joined “regional organizations”. Including nonprofit leaders and key governmental officials brings the total community-minded list to approximately 7,500. We feel this represents the initial candidate pool for 757 Action Framework Champions.
The Action Framework’s Steering Committee decided that an initial goal of 1,000 from this 7,500 pool makes practical sense for the first year. Ideally, we will build from there and within three years have registered 50% or more of all business and nonprofit leaders as 757 Champions.