Recommendations from inaugural Imagine initiative community meetings to be released at briefing with Nashville mayor Thursday
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Lipscomb University officials will release to Nashville Mayor Megan Barry on Thursday, Dec. 15, findings and recommendations developed over the course of the past five months as the result of a series of six community meetings held across the city as part of its Imagine 2016 initiative considering the theme “Nashville: An Emerging City with Global Significance.”
Through the initiative Lipscomb brought together hundreds of community leaders to take a hard look at the current movement in Nashville’s business, health care and entertainment sectors and to discuss opportunities to make the city an international leader. This interchange was created not to be a data-heavy analysis, but to be a kick-starter of ideas for action.
The briefing will begin at 1 p.m. in the Hall of Fame Room, Allen Arena. It is open to the public.
At the briefing, L. Randolph Lowry, Lipscomb University president, will announce the recommendations that resulted from this series of conversations. Mayor Barry will also make remarks at the briefing.
These conversations were part of Lipscomb’s Imagine initiative, launched in February as a new program designed to convene conversations of significance that will bring leaders from around the world to Nashville to engage the community in topics of local and global importance and to share their stories and unique perspectives. Imagine is a series of discussions that will take place over the next five years to examine critical issues and develop solutions to impact communities around the world. President George W. Bush was the featured speaker at the initiative’s kick off Feb. 29 on the Lipscomb campus.
“As we move forward in our ambition to make Nashville a global leader, it is vital to continue these conversations, always discovering new ideas,” said Lowry. “Lipscomb’s Imagine will continue to serve the people of Nashville by facilitating this dialogue to realize our impact on the world.”
Just last month Lipscomb University officials announced that Magic and Cookie Johnson will be the featured guests at Imagine 2017 “Nashville: Prosperity for All Corners of the City” on April 3. Through the Imagine 2017 theme— “Nashville: Prosperity for All Corners of the City”— the Lipscomb community will begin to examine the ideas of faith, redemption, entrepreneurship and community transformation.