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THE STAMFORD PARTNERSHIP 2021 OVERVIEW
A PARTNERSHIP FOR THE FUTURE The Stamford Partnership is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on improving the quality of life for all Stamford residents, businesses, and stakeholders. We bring people, companies, governments, and nonprofits together to reimagine and shape our shared future. Focused on economic and social impact, we’re guided by our three pillars: Public Private Partnership Ecosystem Development Talent Development We create and empower coalitions We build programs and services We believe that the workforce of to help transform Stamford. for high potential industries and the future is built on lifelong Together, we foster a city that’s fully networks—to encourage innovation, learning, soft skills, and technical connected, powered by growth, and connectivity. knowhow. And we help individuals technology, and with sustainability and companies grow with these at the core of all we do. concepts at the forefront.
OUR HISTORY
1978 The Stamford 1996 Stamford Public 2008 Neighbors Link 2020 Stamford
Education Foundation is launched,
Economic Assistance Innovation Week
is launched from The
Corporation is formed by supporting Stamford’s merges with the
Partnership.
local business leaders. immigrant community. Partnership.
1988 The Stamford 2000 The Waterside 2016 The Partnership
Partnership takes its Coalition is formed as a leads the effort to refresh
current name and form project of the Partnership. the City’s branding.
2004 The Mill River Park
1992 The Stamford Collaborative is formed, 2019 SWIFI, Stamford’s
Partnership creates eventually growing to first and only free public
the DSSD, known become Stamford’s WiFi network, launches in
today as Stamford ‘central park.’ downtown Stamford
Downtown..
1987 The Stamford 1998 UConn Stamford 2012 Advocacy
Chamber of Commerce opens in downtown efforts lead to major
is formed through the Stamford, led by the updates at the Stamford
Stamford Partnership. Stamford Partnership. Transportation Center
.
The Stamford Partnership By the Numbers
OUR IMPACT
77,000+
Total SWIFI Logons (public WiFi network)
We foster an economic and social
ecosystem that creates new opportunities $161,000
and helps individuals thrive. Together, we COVID-19 Community Support Funding
make a lasting, positive impact on our
community. 20,000+
Subscribers & Followers
The Partnership has been instrumental in $5,450,000
initiating UConn’s expansion and relocation Direct Impact Grant Pipeline
to downtown Stamford, providing free
public WiFi, producing Stamford Innovation 875+
Week, rebranding the City, reimagining our Dining Bond Purchase Requests
mobility strategy, and fostering Stamford
Downtown, Mill River Park Collaborative, 100+
Stamford Chamber of Commerce, Participating Agencies & Companies
Waterside Coalition, East Side Partnership, 16+
and many other organizations. Local Non-profits Incubated
PARTNERSHIP BOARD & STAFF
Jonathan Bailey John Emra Thomas Madden Lisa Riley
COO President, New England Economic Development Director Global Head of Events
Stamford Health AT&T City of Stamford Forrester
Heather Cavanagh Margaret Feeney David Mannis Caroline Simmons
President Head of Innovation Board of Finance 144th District Representative
Stamford Chamber of Commerce NatWest Markets City of Stamford CT House of Representatives
Terrence Cheng Ursuline Foley David Martin Randy Skigen
President Board of Directors Mayor Board of Directors
CSCU Provident Bank City of Stamford Stamford Partnership
Scott Conley Joe Goett Daniel Morris | Treasurer David Stein
President Financial Advisor Senior Advisor City of Stamford
The Cradlerock Group Wells Fargo Advisors Belpointe Asset Management Zoning Board Chair
April Condon | Vice Chair Jodi Gutierrez | Chairperson David Noble Dan Stolzenbach | Past Chair
Partner Vice President Werth Institute Director General Manager
Day Pitney George Comfort & Sons UCONN Stamford Town Center
Steve Cooper Zsofia Jamieson Chris Perrett Rowena Track
Partner Managing Director, Incubation Vice President CEO
Robinson+Cole Imaginary Peoples United Bank BGCS
Shannon Daniels Alice Knapp Michael Pollard Andrew Sufian
Founder & CEO President Chief of Staff Vice President
Encaptiv Ferguson Library City of Stamford Rubenstein Partners
Gloria DePina David Kooris Matt Quinones Ann Zucker
Member President President Partner
Board of Representatives Stamford Downtown Board of Representatives Carmody Law
Jon Winkel CEO Susan Duarte Director of Finance Jessica Bacigalupi Program Director
Staff Cynthia Lyon Program Director Rebecca Oullette Program Fellow John Carlo Bookkeeper
MEMBERS, SPONSORS, & PARTNERS
PROGRAMS & PROJECTS Public Private Partnership Ecosystem Development Talent Development SWIFI COVID-19 Response & Recovery Leadership Fairfield County Free, high-speed public WIFI in Responsive program development The region’s premier leadership the heart of Stamford to support critical needs and gaps development program Non-profit Incubator Stamford Innovation Week The Stamford Promise Services and resources to host New England’s largest and Guaranteed scholarships for and accelerate small non-profits fastest-growing innovation festival academic performance. COVID-19 Community Fund Mobility Planning TechFWD COVID relief fund supporting food Charting a course for Stamford’s Digital training program to upskill and housing security future first and last mile solutions and reskill our future workforce. The DreamUp Campaign Data Science Working Group The Data Leaders Network The Partnership’s programs that Advocating for for transformative Helping data and analytics drive economic mobility investment in Data Science professionals network and grow Paradigm Regional Sector Partners The Cyber Leaders Network Collaborative grant application Organizing the region’s tech- and Connecting regional cybersecurity program for economic recovery data-dependent companies talent, accelerating the industry
Dream Up Reigniting economic mobility. Unlocking inclusive growth. The DreamUp campaign encompasses the projects, programs, and initiatives of the Stamford Partnership that mitigate or combat systemic biases—and the factors that perpetuate class- and race-based disadvantages and inequities. Employing a programmatic approach, the themes that govern our strategy are economic mobility, inclusive growth, equity, and inclusion. Within the DreamUp platform, we provide the resources, knowledge, and experiences needed to create bias-defying personal, professional, and business growth opportunities. We chose the term “Dream Up” to encompass our efforts as it inspires many facets of our work: To DreamUp the ideas, concepts, and actions that help move people and communities forward To DreamUp and achieve a better life for you, your family, and future generations To DreamUp about the deep issues and inequities at the root of economic disadvantage The work is urgent. The need is great. The time is now.
Dream Up
Reigniting economic mobility. Unlocking inclusive growth.
SWIFI TechFWD Stamford Promise
SWIFI has always provided reliable, free,
TechFWD will provide low- and no-cost The Stamford Promise will provide merit-
high speed internet access. During
tech skill training programs. The skills based, guaranteed $5,000/year
COVID-19, the network became critical
focus on the platforms and concepts scholarships for Stamford’s public school
infrastructure, helping Stamford’s
needed to start or grow a business. With students. The Program will also provide
residents access online services and
TechFWD training, individuals can enter need-based scholarships above the
resources. The network was used
or reenter the workforce with base amount to ensure that no child with
62,457 times since April 1st 2020, with
marketable, saleable skills valued at the desire to attend college cannot
a monthly usage growth rate of ~20%.
$30-$60/hour. because of means.
Nonprofit Incubator Paradigm Mobility Planning
Through fiduciary and fiscal sponsorship Paradigm hosts the PPP projects and The Partnership operates a mobility
services, the Partnership has incubated collaborations of the Stamford program that is seeking significant state
16 organizations and hosted countless Partnership. Most recently, Paradigm and federal support for large-scale,
others. In the last 24 months, fiscal partnered with UConn and The FEAT transformative transportation projects
sponsorships programs and received Collective to pursue a $750,000 EDA in Stamford. The Partnership also
and distributed over $980,000 directly grant. If awarded, the grant will fund the proposed Shared Mobility Principles,
in Stamford. creation of a regional WMBE support which was ultimately adopted by the
hub, based in and focused on Stamford. Board of Reps.
CASE STUDY Special COVID-19 Related Projects
The Partnership’s Role in Covid-19
Stamford Restaurant Bonds
Restaurants got revenue when they needed it most
COVID-19 has changed many lives. with our discounted gift certificate portal.
Stamford residents and businesses were
COVID-19 Community Support Fund
no exception. To help these individuals
The Partnership serves as the program’s fiscal
and companies fight through this
sponsor—helping fund food security organizations
challenging period, the Stamford
in a time of great need.
Partnership spearheaded initiatives
designed to help support and protect
McKinsey Partnership
our most vulnerable citizens and
The Partnership worked with McKinsey in a
businesses in our community.
response and recovery planning series.
As a city-wide, agile organization the
Partnership was empowered to quickly Stamford Hospital Collaboration
and efficiently develop new programs The Partnership helped arrange a $50,000 gift from
and services. the Werth Family Foundation to Stamford Hospital—
accelerating the use of life-saving convalescent
blood plasma therapy.NON-PROFIT INCUBATOR OVERVIEW
The Stamford Partnerships seeks out our greatest challenges and opportunities. Most often, the best solution is a
project or campaign. But oftentimes, an entire coalition must be assembled, and more sustainable solutions
developed. The Stamford Partnership has helped to form and incubate many of the region’s most notable and
successful organizations, including;
Community Development Economic Development
The East Side Partnership The Stamford Chamber of Commerce
Neighbor’s Link (now Building 1 Community) Stamford Downtown
Stamford’s COVID-19 Community Support Fund Stamford’s Innovation District
The Waterside Coalition
Revitalization Education & Governmental
Reinventing Stamford The Mill River Park Collaborative
The South End Neighborhood Revitalization Zone Stamford Public Education Foundation
The West Side Neighborhood Revitalization Zone Stamford Census
TechFWD’s Python Crash CourseINNOVATION CAMPUS
Description & Key Features Comps | Key Insights
The innovation campus model serves and global and super-regional destination for
advanced research, research partnerships, undergraduate and graduate work in data Virginia Tech Innovation Campus / Amazon HQ2
science, talent development, and co-located R&D in partnership with major corporations Seed state investment of $250M
and research grants. VT commits $250 to build $500M campus
Competitive with the largest data science initiatives in the United States Used as primary incentive to woo Amazon HQ2
Economies of scale with economic outputs and benefits 300,000sqft academic and R&D facility
Larger scale projects more effectively solicit private sector attention and investment 250,000sqft partner space
Stamford already rated a top destination for foreign direct investment and company relocation Total budget forecasted to be $1B by 2035
Produces computer and data science talent at highest rate, more quickly and completely Amazon commitment of ~25,000 jobs
addressing concern of incumbent and prospective corporate citizens
Location Snapshot NYC / Cornell Technion / Mark Jacobs
There are excellent leasing options available in and around Stamford Train Station including NYC launched initiative with $100M and land
Silicon Harbor (former Pitney Bowes HQ), the WWE Building, the NatWest Building contribution
Redevelopment opportunities include The Stamford Train Station, Stamford Town Center, 8,000 forecasted academic and campus jobs
Burlington Coat Factory, 14-acre Boatyard Site (The Peninsula) $23B economic benefit over first 30 years
Available parcels include numerous properties contiguous to the Stamford Train Station and Co-located with NYC Google campus 2012-2017
Stamford Hospital Model was driven by a thorough RFI and RFP process
$133M Philanthropic commit from Irwin Mark Jacobs
5-year impact and cost summary
Boston University / Rafik B. Hariri Institute
Direct jobs Total jobs Project cost Innovation C. Investment $290M investment in new building development
5-6K 10-12K $550M $105M Funded with $1.85B Comp Science fundraising
campaign
354,000sqft facility
5-year Budget Forecast ($M) Home to BU mathematics, statistics, and computer
science programs, as well as the Rafik B. Hariri Institute
Space Scholarship Setup & Ops Faculty Tech Staff Programming for Computing and Computational Science &
200 100 100 50 25 15 5 AdvanceCT EAP
Engineering 12CORNELL TECH
Cornell Tech focuses on creating pioneering leaders and
technologies for the digital age, through research, technology
commercialization, and graduate-level education at the professional
master’s, doctoral and postdoctoral levels.
Our premise is that the rapid pace of innovation in the digital age
calls for new approaches to commercializing university technology,
new levels of strategic collaboration between companies and
universities, and new curricula for graduate education. We are
creating new academic programs that blend technical depth,
business knowhow, design skills and a “builder” mindset.
KEY POINTs
• NYC used desirable land and $100M in cash incentives to attract
top institutions
• The city used a structured process to attract Cornell Tech,
culminating in a competitive RFP
• Process was stage gated, with clear go/no-go decision points
after each phase of attraction
Source: https://tech.cornell.edu/about • Partnership with local universities was encouraged, as was
community engagementINNOVATION HUB, STAMFORD MODEL
Academic Program Incubator / Accelerator Certification Institute Talent Bridge
● 1,000 grads/year ● Post-doc comp and ● Google, Microsoft, ● Insurtech and
● Global professor data sci IBM Partner Manufacturing,
talent ● Fintech ● 5,000 Workforce Hartford
● Fellowship ● Cybersecurity Ready/year ● Biotech, New Haven
● AI ● Hyper-intensive, 30- ● CSCU Partnership to
● Digital Media 90 day employer- High-potential
partnered track with
housing
● Code Academy
● Major Diversity
Initiative
Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity Initiatives
Corporate Colocation & Studio(s)
Research & Commercialization Partnerships
Community Events & ProgrammingCREATING NEW OPPORTUNITY, FOSTERING INCLUSIVE GROWTH
Scholarship Pathways
The Institute is designed to ensure that anyone who wants The institute will work with employers to establish internship
to build a career in tech can do so, regardless of income, and full-time hiring commitments, directly from the institute’s
wealth, and other historically limiting factors. Need-based programs. The matching program will rely heavily on need
scholarships will be funded by a hybrid model of program and demographics.
funds and philanthropic support.
Hiring, Spending, & Contract Commits
Entry Points Data Science jobs are secure, high-paying, and growing. They
The Institute will be coupled with FastFWD, a program are just the type of career opportunity that can end cycles of
that provides entry-level tech training regardless of poverty.
income or skill level. The program, when completed,
qualifies individuals to pursue a bachelors in computer
science with partnered universities. Hiring Local
It takes a village to support a major data science center. DSI
will work with local media, organizations, and partners to
Nontraditional Education ensure the staff of the DSI reflects the community in which it
The Institute will house a large-scale certification program operates. ~25% of jobs created impact living wage and/or
and code academy. With these alternative education minority targets.
programs more individuals of more diverse economic
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