The New Local Problem Solving

How can new forms of local, cross-sector leadership ensure an inclusive and equitable recovery and a more resilient future? What lessons can we draw from past recoveries in Detroit, New Orleans, and other cities that are relevant nationwide today? And what are the possible pathways for national urban policy at this crucial crossroads?

Henry Cisneros

Henry Cisneros
Chairman, American Triple I
Partners, LLC. & Vice Chairman
& Equity Owner, Siebert,
Williams, Shank, LLC

Rip Rapson

Rip Rapson
President & CEO,
The Kresge Foundation

Upcoming Discussion:

Community Foundations
as Local Anchors

Wednesday, April 21, 10:30 am Pacific

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Sponsored by

Bank of America
Kresge
Weingart Foundation

Henry Cisneros

Henry Cisneros is the Executive Chairman of CityView, an investment firm focused on urban real estate, in-city housing, and metropolitan infrastructure, which he founded in 2000.Just prior, he was President and COO of Univision Communications, the Spanishlanguage broadcaster which has become the fifth-most-watched television network in the nation. He currently serves on Univision’s Board of Directors.

Mr. Cisneros has a background in public service, and is well-known for having been elected as the mayor of San Antonio, Texas in 1981 — the first Hispanic-American to be elected mayor of a major US City. After four terms in office, he was appointed by President Clinton in 1992 as the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Mr. Cisneros has served as President of the National League of Cities and as Deputy Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He is currently a member of the Advisory Boards of both the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as well as the Broad Foundation and was honored by the National Housing Conference as the “Housing Person of the Year.”

Rip Rapson

Rip Rapson is president and CEO of The Kresge Foundation, a private, national foundation dedicated to expanding opportunities in America’s cities through grantmaking and social investing.

Since his appointment in 2006, Rapson has led the 95- year-old foundation to adopt an array of grantmaking and investing tools to improve the economic, social, cultural and environmental conditions of urban life through six defined programs: arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services and community development in Kresge’s hometown of Detroit. Using a full array of grant, loan and other investment tools, Kresge invests more than $160 million annually to foster economic and social change. Nationally, Rapson has strengthened the philanthropic sector’s role through convening, collaborating and supplementing community development activities in cities across the country.

Rapson earned a bachelor’s degree from Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.) and a juris doctorate from Columbia University Law School. He is the recipient of dozens of philanthropic and civic honors and accolades, including a 2017 induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been named Michiganian of the Year by The Detroit News, a Power and Influence Top 50 executive by The NonProfit Times and a Michigan Changemaker by Crain’s Detroit Business. He has co-authored two books: “Troubled Waters,” an account of the Boundary Waters legislative battle in Minnesota, and “Ralph Rapson: Sixty Years of Modern Design,” a biography of his father, a globally renowned architect.