Fort Lauderdale, Fla. – April 14, 2021 – Today in a virtual event attended by nearly three hundred community leaders, the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance Foundation debuted its rebranded community collective impact initiative, The Prosperity Partnership.

Beginning in 2011, the community strategic plan was known as Six Pillars Broward and followed the Six Pillars framework developed by the Florida Chamber Foundation. The Prosperity Partnership expands its focus from six areas to eleven: Target Industry Growth, Education, Talent Attraction & Retention, Community Branding, Social Justice & Racial Equity, Economic Mobility (Prosperity Broward), Entrepreneurship, Transportation, Resiliency, Affordable Housing and Homelessness. The new brand, name, logos and icons for each of the focus areas was developed through a creative process led by Starmark International.

The Prosperity Partnership is co-chaired by Kathleen Cannon, President & CEO of the United Way of Broward County, Tony Coley, Regional President for South Florida at Truist and Juliet M. Roulhac, Director of Corporate External Affairs for FPL. Community leaders and subject-matter experts co-chairing the eleven initiatives are:

• Affordable Housing: Walter Duke, Principal, Walter Duke & Partners; Sandra Veszi Einhorn, Executive Director, Coordinating Council of Broward; Senator Nan Rich, Broward County Commission
• Community Branding: Kareen Boutros, Executive Director, Broward Workshop; Jennifer O'Flannery Anderson, President & CEO, Community Foundation of Broward; Rafael Vasquez, Market Leader, Florida Blue
• Economic Mobility (Prosperity Broward): President Gregory Haile, Broward College; Lauren Marcum, Executive Director, JP Morgan Chase & Co.; Newton Sanon, President & CEO, OIC of South Florida
• Education: President Gregory Haile, Broward College, President George L. Hanbury, II, Nova Southeastern University
• Entrepreneurship: Jaclyn Baumgarten, CEO & Co-Founder, Boatsetter; Lillian Roberts, Founder & CEO, Xendoo; Nate Vasel, Principal, Las Olas VC; John Wensveen, Chief Innovation Officer, Nova Southeastern University
• Homelessness: Frances Esposito, CEO, Broward Partnership; Rebecca McGuire, Human Services Administrator, Broward County; Andrew Taubman, Principal, Kaufman Rossin; Lynne Wines, Board & Audit Committee Member, Bank United
• Resiliency: Commissioner Beam Furr, Broward County Commission; Jennifer Jurado, Chief Resiliency Officer, Broward County; Dan Lindblade, President & CEO, Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce
• Social Justice & Racial Equity: Kimm Campbell, Assistant County Administrator, Broward County; Sue Gallagher, Chief Innovation Officer, Children Services Council of Broward County; Jason Jenkins, SVP Communications & Community Affairs, Miami Dolphins; Felipe Pinzon, Executive Director, Hispanic Unity
• Talent Attraction & Retention: Ashley Boxer, VP External Affairs, Broward Health; Mildred Coyne, SVP Workforce Education & Innovation, Broward College; Melanie Dickinson, President & Publisher, South Florida Business Journal; Ryan Shea, President, Right Management
• Target Industry Growth: Bob Swindell, President & CEO, the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance; David Coddington, Sr. VP – Business Development, the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance; Todd Holt, VP – Business Development, the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance
• Transportation: Gretchen Cassini, Mobility Advancement Program Administrator, Broward County; Sandy Michael McDonald, Director of the Office of Economic and Small Business Development, Broward County; Randall Vitale, President, Hoffman's Chocolates

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and The Prosperity Partnership also announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) regarding Prosperity Broward, the economic mobility focus area of the Prosperity Partnership. The memorandum, which was signed on April 7, focuses on expanding economic mobility in areas within Broward County.

The MOU outlines a commitment by the Atlanta Fed’s Community and Economic Development (CED) team and the Prosperity Broward team to work together to build, launch, and support the initiative. With the assistance of the Atlanta Fed’s CED team, Prosperity Broward plans to qualitatively and quantitatively measure data showcasing the impact the initiative is having in communities that have experienced