Ten years of accomplishments!

Since our founding we have accomplished the following regional actions:

Collaborative Leadership

  • Successfully created Cumberland Region Tomorrow in 2000 that is now our region’s recognized organization to encourage and support growth planning with emphasis on land use, transportation and preservation of our rural landscape and character of our region’s communities that is now described as Quality Growth in our current programming efforts
  • Created an effective regional leadership and communication platform involving 7000+ regional leaders and citizens that has positioned our region to collectively address our region’s key issues and opportunities through our strategic collaborative programs and actions
  • Created strategic relationships with 50+ national, regional and local public and private organizations that support our region’s commitment to Collaborative Action and Quality Growth Principles

Research, Vision and Consensus

  • Built on the Pierce Report developed by Vanderbilt University in 1999 that created the regional momentum for the creation of CRT
  • Completed Cumberland Region Tomorrow’s Regional Visioning Project in 2002 and presented results in the 2003 Report to the Region that describe the region’s 2020 growth trend data and scenarios to 3500+ regional citizens across our region
  • Convened over 600+ regional leaders and citizens in our 1999 and 2003 Regional Planning Summits that brought up to date regional growth and development information from national and regional experts and confirmed our region’s commitment to form CRT, complete and present regional growth trend research through the Regional Visioning Project and address land use issues through the Quality Growth Toolbox Initiative
  • Identified Six Key Regional Issues and Opportunities through Pre-Summit Research efforts in the spring of 2009
  • Convened 400+ regional leaders and citizens at the 2009 Convening the Region Summit and confirmed regional commitment to address six key regional issues and opportunities for future collaborative action
  • Provided education and built regional support for the 2009 Key Issue of Regional Transit System Development at the 2009 Convening the Region Summit

Program Action

  • Led the development of the CRT Quality Growth Toolbox, published in December of  2006, that brought together 150 key regional leaders to develop now our region’s premier training and technical assistance resource in support of regional and local Comprehensive Planning, Quality Growth and Sustainable Development
  • Facilitated the CRT Quality Growth Toolbox Pilot Project facilitated from 2007 to 2009 and brought together 975 regional leaders and citizens to address pressing comprehensive plan development, historic town center redesign/redevelopment and open space conservation goals in five of CRT's ten county region
  • Worked with AIA Middle Tennessee to secure national AIA 150 Blueprint for America grant funding and successfully provided community visioning, planning and design workshops to Quality Growth Toolbox pilot projects in Kingston Springs, Lebanon and Robertson County
  • Created new Quality Growth Training and Technical Assistance tools to support locally led Quality Growth Projects and Presentations in all ten CRT counties
  • Created the CRT GIS Greenprint Tools for Quality Growth in 2009 that provides consolidated, web-based GIS information that is currently supporting regional and local planning and open space conservation planning efforts

Strategic Implementation

  • Created the Power of Ten Regional Communications Brand in the spring of 2009 and used this successfully to market and brand the 2009 Convening the Region Summit
  • Created a new Power of Ten Regional Communication Platform and Social Network that is currently supporting strategic regional communication and collaboration.
  • Creating a new public/private partnership between Cumberland Region Tomorrow and  the Nashville Area MPO for regional outreach, education, communication and action in support of regional growth planning and transportation/transit efforts
  • Supporting the new Middle Tennessee Mayors Caucus and Transit Alliance of Middle Tennessee, created as a result of Mayor Dean’s call at the 2009 Convening the Region Summit, that is creating new regional organizational capacity to address the key regional issue of Transportation/Transit System Development
  • Exploring new opportunities through the Sustainable Communities Partnership announced in late 2009 through USDOT, HUD and EPA to expand Quality Growth Programming and continue support to local comprehensive planning and regional visioning efforts for our region