WHAT DO COLLEGES, SCHOOL DISTRICTS, ENTREPRENEURS, CONCERNED CITIZENS & PUBLIC LEADERS HAVE IN COMMON?
All Help Bring Youth-Powered Revitalization & Resilience To
Their Community As The Local Sponsor Of RISING PLACES.
Sponsorship shows that your educational institution, business, public agency or non-profit is a community innovation leader.
“Being a RISING PLACES Sponsor is a great way for an organization to put itself at the heart of
local efforts to boost economic recovery, climate resilience & natural resource restoration.“
– Steve Haze, Executive Director, Sierra Resource Conservation District
RISING PLACES Sponsor for the eastern half of Fresno County, California, USA
RISING PLACES: Advancing a global educational trend that’s teaching youth to improve the future in which they will live.
Empowering The Re-Generation:
Why include youth-powered economic
revitalization and disaster resilience?
Most communities have a history of empty political promises of revitalization, ignored plans and failed projects. Few engage those whose futures are most at stake.
Born into this polycrisis world, no one has more motivation to restore natural resources, revitalize communities and boost disaster resilience than today’s youth.
They reject the “let’s destroy at a slower rate” goal of their grandparents’ “green” and “sustainable” failures. Reducing new damage is essential, but we have centuries of old damage to undo if we want a better future…not just one that’s less worse.
They reject superficial renewal, based on slogans, downtown banners & planters, etc.
With devitalization the current norm, they want to reverse their community’s downward trajectory. They know that a place that is not regenerating is degenerating.
In short, they want to be a “re-generation”, focused on restoration, revitalization, resilience, remediating, repurposing, renewing, reconnecting, etc.
That’s why we are launching this youth-oriented initiative: RISING PLACES.
Today’s Youth Want Nonpartisan Solutions.
They’re tired of “old people” focusing on what divides us. They’re sick of agencies ignoring collaborative solutions to protect their turf. RISING PLACES supports all local agencies, thus reducing turf issues. RISING PLACES supports inclusive, green solutions, thus appealing to progressives. RISING PLACES doesn’t rely on government control, thus appealing to conservatives. RISING PLACES empowers your local Re-Generation.
EDUCATION + ACTION + FEEDBACK
Young Folks Want More Than Just Hope For A Brighter Future.
They want to create it. Now they can, with RISING PLACES Tools.TM
Give them tools that combine education with action.
$50/year can make you the Local RISING PLACES Sponsor.
Sponsorship provides all local leaders & residents (especially youth) 5 years of FREE access to our 12 RISING PLACES Tools.
The tools build local renewal capacity, helping communities get accredited as a RISING PLACE. Make your area a magnet for public funding, employers, real estate investors and new residents. Enjoy green, equitable, resilient economic growth.
A rising place is where employers & investors go to grow.
Sponsors include community colleges, foundations, planners, developers, non-profits, mayors, Chambers of Commerce, etc.
Help revitalize your neighborhoods, environment & economy.
Being a Sponsor lets you to register a community you love.
Your gift is honored at the top of your community's page,
just like one of these actual Local Sponsor banners:
Registering your community activates FREE access the RISING PLACES Tools for all local residents and leaders, with an emphasis on youth.
You will appear in the Local Sponsor Banner on your community’s RISING PLACES page for a period of 5 years.
At the end of 5 years, a new Local Sponsor will be recruited, but you will have the right of first refusal to renew, if you wish.
Your community will NOT lose access to its RISING PLACES Tools if no new sponsor is recruited.
THERE ARE 23,000 VILLAGES, TOWNS, CITIES & COUNTIES
IN THE USA...BUT ONLY
1000 WILL BE RISING PLACES.
Love Your Community? Make Sure It Doesn't Miss Out.
Register it in just 2 minutes: no ongoing obligations.
Anyone can do it: no official approval is needed.
AVAILABILITY LOCATOR
Before Enrolling, Please Check To See If Your
City Or County Already Has A RISING PLACES Sponsor.
After you become a Sponsor, we'll email you to get the name of your desired city/county.
Check its availability NOW before enrolling.
The news about RISING PLACES is spreading fast, so—before you enroll as the Local Sponsor—check to make sure your city or county is still available.
PRE-LAUNCH DISCOUNT:
Act now, before RisingPlaces.org goes live, and you'll SAVE 50%.
Fees double after May 30, 2023
3 Simple Steps To Registering:
Decide whether you want to sponsor your city or county, and determine its approximate population.
Pay the Local Sponsor fee corresponding to that population size.
Respond to our Local Sponsor “welcome” email by registering the community or county of your choice.
That’s it. You’re done. There are no other responsibilities.
Just sit back and relax in the knowledge that you’ve done your neighbors a very good deed.
A SMALL, BRIEF GIFT FROM YOU.
A HUGE, LASTING IMPACT FOR ALL.
SILVER: $250
Small Community Registration
5 years of RISING PLACES Sponsorship for $50/year.
You can register 1 Small Community (under 50,000 pop.).
You will be featured for 5 years in the Local Sponsor Banner of your community’s RISING PLACES page, with a link to your website.
Registration gives all residents & leaders FREE, permanent access to our tools, which build the community’s renewal capacity, and help it get accredited as a RISING PLACE.
Act now to save 50%:
Fee will be $500 after May 30, 2023.
GOLD: $500
Medium Community Registration
5 years of RISING PLACES Sponsorship for $100/year.
You can register 1 Medium Community (under 250,000 pop.). You will be featured for 5 years in the Local Sponsor Banner of your community’s RISING PLACES page, with a link to your website.
Registration gives all residents & leaders FREE, permanent access to our tools, which build the community’s renewal capacity, and help it get accredited as a RISING PLACE.
Act now to save 50%:
Fee will be $1000 after May 30, 2023.
PLATINUM: $750 Large Community Registration
5 years of RISING PLACES Sponsorship for $150/year.
You can register 1 Large Community (under 1 million pop.). You will be featured for 5 years in the Local Sponsor Banner of your community’s RISING PLACES page, with a link to your website.
Registration gives all residents & leaders FREE, permanent access to our tools, which build the community’s renewal capacity and help it get accredited as a RISING PLACE.
Act now to save 50%:
Fee will be $1500 after May 30, 2023.
DIAMOND: $1000 Major Community Registration
5 years of RISING PLACES Sponsorship for $200/year.
You can register 1 Major Community (over 1 million pop.). You will be featured for 5 years in the Local Sponsor Banner of your community’s RISING PLACES page, with a link to your website.
Registration gives all residents & leaders FREE, permanent access to our tools, which build the community’s renewal capacity and help it get accredited as a RISING PLACE.
Act now to save 50%:
Fee will be $2000 after May 30, 2023.
Need To Learn More Before
Becoming A Local Sponsor?
See below.
WHAT ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES?
We started with the USA & Canada, but India, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Ireland and others are joining the RISING PLACES network.
“Any business serving a geographic market should become the local RISING PLACES Sponsor.
It’s the best goodwill marketing investment we’ve made: far more efficient than advertising!“
– Jay Pipavat, CEO, EastWest Web, a global web development company.
RISING PLACES Sponsor for Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India (population 8.5 million)
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE
FIRST SPONSOR OF EACH CATEGORY!
FIRST SILVER SPONSOR:
Dick Fleming, CEO, Community Development Ventures, Inc.
For: CORTEX Innovation Community in St. Louis, Missouri
FIRST GOLD SPONSOR:
INCLUSI.US, LLC (a startup company)
For: TBA
FIRST PLATINUM SPONSOR:
NATIONAL COMMONWEALTH GROUP
For: Youngstown, Ohio
FIRST DIAMOND SPONSOR:
JACOBS (a Fortune 500 company)
For: Dallas County, Texas
WHY MOST REVITALIZATION & RESILIENCE EFFORTS FAIL
Revitalization and resilience are universal goals, but are too complex to be achieved within silos. Your community probably has talented economic developers, planners, designers, builders, developers and non-profits. You might have some visionary plans, projects, initiatives and leaders. But some key missing pieces are sabotaging success.
All of those players and activities can contribute to revitalization and resilience. None can achieve them alone. In fact, they usually can’t even succeed together.
They lack three crucial elements:
1.) Ongoing Effort: Resilient prosperity doesn’t come from one-time projects or transient political administrations. It requires renewal momentum that constantly increases confidence in a better local future. That confidence builds resources by attracting residents, employers and investors, and by retaining those you have.
2.) Informed Stakeholders: Engagement events like town halls, visioning workshops and design charrettes are well-intentioned, but are often feel-good exercises producing documents that rot on a shelf. A community cooperates effectively and moves forward together when all stakeholders (especially local youth) understand what needs to be achieved, and how to help achieve it.
3.) Real-time Feedback: Plans are usually obsolete the day they are published, becoming more so with each passing hour. Delayed feedback creates chaos. Leaders and residents alike need to know when the community is advancing, when it’s stalled, and when it’s receding.
All three of those crucial missing pieces are provided by RISING PLACES Tools.
Are you a real estate investor or redeveloper?
Developers: Accelerate Local Support For Your Projects
Do you want to increase the likelihood of getting the land use entitlements, planning approval, zoning variations and/or local tax breaks you need?
Demonstrate that you are committed to doing your project in a way that helps revitalize the overall community and equitably benefits all local stakeholders.
Activating a community’s RISING PLACES Tools—by being their Sponsor—shows leaders and residents you’re helping their community become a rising place that lifts all lives.
“RISING PLACES accreditation is how a city or region proves to residents, employers, and real estate investors that local leaders are serious about equitable economic recovery, neighborhood revitalization and resilience.“
– Earick Allen, Executive Director at Urban Entrepreneurs Institute
Giving a community RISING PLACES
Tools is like giving all of your friends
free, permanent gym memberships.
As with exercise equipment, every time a local resident or leader uses our tools, your community builds strength, health, beauty and resilience.
As with a gym membership, people can use our RISING PLACES Tools whenever they want, and as often (or seldom) as they want.
NO APPROVAL IS NEEDED FROM LOCAL LEADERS
FOR YOU TO BE A COMMUNITY'S SPONSOR.
You’re not obligating them to use the tools, and you’re not enrolling them to get accredited as a Rising Place.
You’re providing the opportunity to create a brighter local future: it’s up to the community to actually create it.
That said, some Sponsors are mayors and city managers, paying the small Sponsor fee from the public budget.
PLEASE NOTE: (1) New York City boroughs each count as a separate community. (2) We reserve the right to refuse Sponsors we deem to be inappropriate for any reason. If rejected, your money will, of course, be immediately refunded in full. (3) You can sponsor your community in someone else’s name if you wish (with their permission), or in the community’s name, or anonymously.
Only one Sponsor per place: Act now to be a local champion.
Are You A City/County CIO/CTO?
City Or County Chief Information/Technology Officers:
Enhance your IT department's value to your community.
As the repository of your community’s data, your department is at the heart of its past. As the nexus of real-time transactions and data sharing, your department is at the heart of the community’s present.
Being a Local RISING PLACES Sponsor grows your IT department by putting it at the heart of your community’s brighter future.
Unlike other types of Local Sponsors, IT departments can add value to RISING PLACES Tools by creating links to them on local websites.
Almost anyone can be a Local RISING PLACES Sponsor,
but—as with schools—public IT departments should be.
Why are others like you becoming
the local RISING PLACES Sponsor?
1) PROMOTION: They want to benefit their business, non-profit, school, public agency or career. Helping their city or county is a very satisfying fringe benefit.
2) PUBLIC SERVICE: They just want to benefit their city or county, and don’t need promotional benefits.
ARE YOU, OR A MEMBER OF YOUR TEAM,
IN ONE OF THESE ALLIED PROFESSIONS?
Reduce your RISING PLACES Sponsor Fee by entering the
relevant member discount code on your enrollment form.
10% discount code: IEDC-10
10% discount code: NACEDA-10
10% discount code: NADO-10
10% discount code: ASCE-10
10% discount code: ULI-10
10% discount code: APA-10
10% discount code: AIA-10
10% discount code: ICMA-10
10% discount code: ASLA-10
To request a discount for your organization’s members, email info@reconomics.org
NOT READY TO BE A RISING PLACES SPONSOR?
YOUR COMMUNITY ALREADY HAS A SPONSOR?
BE A RISING PLACES SUPPORTER FOR JUST $29!
For a one-time gift of just $29, you can help bring a brighter future to communities and tribes that are too poor to have a Sponsor. Your gift will help us provide free RISING PLACES community activations to some places upon their request. Display the Supporter graphic on your website or shop window, if you wish.
BONUS:
You get a FREE 3-year subscription (or extension, if already subscribing) to REVITALIZATION: The Journal of Urban, Rural & Environmental Resilience. It’s normally $9.99/year. (Sponsors also get this benefit.)
Global Sponsor opportunity for the RISING PLACES initiative.
The non-profit RECONOMICS Institute (Washington, DC) is inviting one or more Global Sponsors for the RISING PLACES initiative. Large national or international organizations are invited to apply, including corporations, professional associations, non-profits and foundations.
The partnership model is flexible, depending on the resources offered (financial, member access, publicity, etc.).
Your organization would be prominently featured like this:
“RISING PLACES is an initiative of RECONOMICS Institute,
sponsored by ABC Corporation and XYZ Foundation.“
