MetroHartford Alliance
The MetroHartford Alliance is Hartford’s Chamber of Commerce and the Hartford Region’s Economic Development Leader. The Alliance brings together 1,000 businesses, education and healthcare institutions, municipalities, non-profit organizations, and government leaders who are invested in the Hartford Region’s future economic growth and its viability for robust business development.
The MetroHartford Alliance needed a knowledgeable firm to serve as strategic planner on issues of civic infrastructure, including the development of a new local education fund (LEF). They called upon Collaborative to take the lead in research, development, and implementation of the LEF. Collaborative led the research and discovery process, benchmarking of comparable local education funds (LEFs), design and facilitation of the Hartford Education Collaborative’s meetings. Collaborative also developed an initial business plan for the potential LEF, now in place, called Achieve Hartford.
