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Talent Dividend Prize is a $1 million prize to be awarded to the city that exhibits the greatest increase in the number of post secondary degrees granted per one thousand population over a four-year period and achieves its Talent Dividend. The Prize will be used to launch a national promotional campaign centered around talent development for the winning city.
Designed as an effort to increase education attainment in our nation's cities, the Prize will be awarded to the metropolitan area that exhibits the greatest increase in the number of post secondary degrees granted per one thousand population over a four-year period and achieves its Talent Dividend.
The $1 million will be used to launch a national promotional campaign for the winning city. The prize will showcase local talent development at the national level as the thing great cities do.
Fifty-seven cities have registered to compete.
The Talent Dividend Prize is a joint effort of CEOs for Cities, the Kresge Foundation, and the Lumina Foundation for Education. CEOs for Cities has identified talent development as fundamental to successful cities. Research indicates that 58 percent of a city's success, as measured by per capita income, can be attributed to the percentage of the adult population with a college degree.
Talent Dividend Network is a national web magazine and engagement platform. It is a collaborative media partnership between Issue Media Group, The Civic Commons, and CEOs for Cities. It publishes monthly.
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Detroit, MI [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Memphis, TN - South Main Arts District, by Thomas R Machnitzki [CC-BY-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Dayton, OH - Schuster Performing Arts Center, originally published in hiVelocity
Akron, OH [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons