By engaging an entire city department in the Drucker Institute's Playbook for the Public Sector leadership-training program, the South Bend Department of Community Investment has created a new dimension of performance in spurring investment in a stronger South Bend. From July 2013 through May 2014, projected investment in the local economy has more than quadrupled over the previous year while unemployment has dropped by 25 percent.
2015 Bright Idea
Winners:
City of South Bend, IN
2015
Publication:
Innovations in American Government Awards
Jurisdiction:
Indiana
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