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City Forward offers important insights for community engagement, drawing on pioneering collaborative work between Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus and its community partners. Matt Enstice offers a clear-eyed look at strategies that work, as well as pitfalls to avoid. These strategies can set up communities and companies for authentic large-scale, mutually beneficial change. --Rosanne Haggerty, President and CEO of Community Solutions Companies, community organizations, and all of us have an opportunity to learn how Matt Enstice and the BNMC approached neighbors from all parts of their city community to engage meaningfully with each other for inclusive and equitable economic and social growth -- a challenging endeavor with immense rewards. City Forward is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to build together to thrive in a socially, financially, and historically complicated environment. --Megan Smith, former United States Chief Technology Officer; CEO and co-founder, shift7 How can company leaders bring about positive change in their communities? They can start by reading this book. Entrepreneurship and innovation in large institutions should facilitate benefits for all--and City Forward provides a roadmap of how to get there. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to engage with communities in a thoughtful and effective way. --Desh Deshpande, Chairman and President Sparta Group LLC; Life Member, MIT Corporation Innovation districts must seek to not only to expand who has access to prosperity, but also listen to what community leaders think that could look like. City Forward offers valuable insights into how we might all come to the table and share the difficulties and joy in positive community engagement--affirming that we will all be better for it. --William Gillison, Pastor of Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Buffalo NY

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Matt Enstice is the President & CEO of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, Inc., located in Buffalo, New York. He is a member of the Steering Committee for The Global Institute on Innovation Districts, and has served on numerous boards, including the Buffalo Niagara Partnership, Buffalo Renaissance Foundation, the School of Visual Arts Design for Social Innovation, and EforAll. He has been a member of the 50x50 Transportation Commission (part of the Alliance to Save Energy), the National Grid Advisory Board, and Viridi Parente and hosts the Talking Cities podcast. Mike Gluck is the President of Gluckworks, a copywriting and marketing firm in Amherst, NY. As a writer, author, and marketer, Mike works closely with leading organizations nationwide to help make complex topics easier to understand.

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