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Chicago Area Community Benefits Conference

Purpose: Bring together leaders and organizations who are already engaged in a CBA
campaign or coalition to share experiences and learn from local and national experts from 8
different states. Leaders from 20 organizations and four different CBA campaigns are
expected to attend.

Draft Agenda
8:30am

Doors open. Sign in. Continental Breakfast.

9:00am

Introductions
Introduce campaigns and briefly describe coalitions work.

9:45am

Morning Panel: CBAsWhat is Possible? What we are winning &


how- A National Perspective
Best practices around the country. What made them successful?

11:15am

AM Workshop Sessions:

1:00pm

Messaging & Communications- Effective CBA Messages, Telling Your Story


Working with the Building Trades to Win Local Hire Agreements
Monitoring and Enforcement
Negotiations Part 1- Getting the Developer to the Table (Not open to the public)

Lunch Panel: Working with public officials (lunch provided)


Role of public officials; Getting constituents into jobs; Accountable development
as an anti-crime strategy.

2:15pm

PM Workshop Sessions:

Research Tools for Local Coalitions


After Development is Complete: Getting Local Hires & Good Quality Jobs
New partners & Unlikely Allies: Focus on inclusion of small businesses and
chambers of commerce
Negotiations Part 2- Being in the Room (Not open to the public)

4:00pm

Next steps and wrap up

4:30pm

End

Sponsors: Pierce Family Foundation Woods Fund of Chicago.


Planning Committee Members: Alliance of the Southeast (ASE) Blocks Together Chicago
Coalition for the Homeless Coalitions Campaigns Community Benefits Agreements (COCACOM)
Community Renewal Society Endeleo Institute The Law Project (TLP) NW Indiana
Federation of Interfaith Organizations Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP) Woods
Fund Chicago

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