LINK
Leadership Involvement Networking Knowledge
LINK is a cross-sector, cross-county leadership exchange that brings together the region’s most influential leaders to learn how metropolitan areas throughout the country are addressing the same issues and challenges we face in the Atlanta region.
During the trip, leaders from the Atlanta region engage in dialogue with their counterparts, exchanging ideas, resolutions, discoveries and solutions to explore innovative ideas and programs that have helped to build partnerships and impact positive community change. In its 11th year, LINK is coordinated by the Atlanta Regional Commission, the official planning agency for the 10-county Atlanta region.
Previous trips visited Denver, Dallas, Seattle, Cleveland, San Diego, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Portland, Miami and Vancouver.
LINK 2008 Denver
ARC Program LINKs Metro Atlanta Leaders to Denver for Idea Sharing
More than 100 top leaders from metro Atlanta traveled to the metro Denver area to learn about how the region faces challenges, capitalizes on opportunities and moves the mile-high city ahead.
In 1997, the very first LINK program took place in the Denver metro region. Participants witnessed the progress that has been made over the past decade in Denver and compared that with metro Atlanta’s related progress.
The Denver region has made a conscious decision to take a regional approach to addressing many of the challenges they are facing as a result of growth. The Metro Denver LINK program focused on some key redevelopment projects including military bases and brownfield areas, education reform, drought and water conservation, the arts, transportation systems and more.
To read more about the 2008 LINK trip to metro Denver, please visit this blog that documented the lessons learned and reactions from Atlanta leaders.
Read more about the similar challenges that Denver and Atlanta share and about the two distinct approaches each metro region used to address those challenges (PDF - 13.9 MB)
LINK 2008 Participants
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John Ahmann
L.B. (Buzz) Ahrens
David B. Allman
Kerry Armstrong
P. Clay Baldwin
Joe Bankoff
Charles Bannister
Demming Bass
Brandon Beach
Laura Beaty MD
Lendley Black
Renay Blumenthal
Mike Bodker
Bill Bolling
Lisa Borders
Luz Borrero
Robert L. Brown
Amanda Brown-Olmstead
Mark Burkhalter
Randy Cardoza
Chris Clark
Jock A. Connell
Bill Cooper
Patrick Corleto
Robert Dallas
Ben DeCosta
Gerri Dickerson
Jeff Dickerson
G. Douglas Dillard
Faye DiMassimo
Benita M. Dodd
Jeff DuFresne
Ed Ellis
Andrew Feiler
Kevin Fletcher
Mayor Bill Floyd |
Matt Forshee
Hans Gant
Sajan George
Virginia Gibbs
Mark Gilbreath
Kevin Green
Scotty Greene
Stefan Gresham
David Hankerson
Jason Harper
Oscar L. Harris
Helen D. Hatch
Randy Hayes
Darryl Hicks
Mara Holley
Ken Huff
Laura Hughes
Kevin Isakson
Rick Karasiewicz
Samuel W. Kelly III
Raymond King
Ross King
Charles Krautler
Steven J. Labovitz
Tad Leithead
Craig S. Lesser
Eric Linton
Stephen Loftin
Tim Lowe
Stephen Macauley
Frank Mann
Jim Maran
Nick Masino William F. McCargo
Emory Morsberger
Clair Muller |
Al Nash
John O'Callaghan
Samuel S. Olens
Al Outland
Michael E. Paris
Alicia Phillip
Kay Pippin
Gerald L. Pouncey, Jr.
Kasim Reed
Jim Rhoden
Malaika Rivers
H. Jerome Russell
Beverly A. Scott
Wassim Selman
Pamela Sessions
Teresa M. Slack
Jack R. Smith
Steve Smith
Vance Smith, Jr.
Denise Starling
Robert Steele
Jim Stokes
Doug Stoner
Eric Tanenblatt
Mark Vaughan
Robert P. Voyles
Michael Walls
Tom Weyandt
Sam Williams
Yvonne Williams
Betty Willis
Jere Wood
Tom Worthan
Neely Young
Mason Zimmerman |
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