The Inner City Economic Forum is the country's only national leadership network focused on business-led inner city economic development. The Forum was founded in 2003 as an ambitious and bold effort to create a national movement around the revitalization of America’s inner cities. It has emerged as a powerful mechanism for generating innovative ideas on inner city economic development and transforming ideas into action.

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The Forum is a unique organization that engages leaders and practitioners to work across boundaries, putting collaboration into action and developing inventive solutions with substantial impact. Since its inception, the Forum has emerged as an ongoing mechanism that:

• Targets transformational thinking and national-scale change
• Connects leaders across boundaries to develop solutions and build on success
• Promotes, incubates and accelerates adoption of innovative ideas

Forum members represent a dynamic national group of thought leaders and opinion shapers from national corporations; inner city businesses; investment firms; government, civic and community organizations; foundations; and academic and policy-making institutions. Forum members bridge their diversity to work together towards a common goal: the economic revitalization of America’s inner cities to create jobs, income and wealth for inner city residents.

The Forum’s current agenda focuses on action in three critical areas: increasing capital flows to inner cites, building inner city businesses of size and scale, and marketing the business opportunity of America’s inner cities.

 Current Strategic Partners and Sponsors

• Bank of America
• Citigroup
• Ford Foundation
• F. B. Heron Foundation
• Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
• US Bancorp Community Development Corporation
• U.S. Small Business Administration