The Talent Divided Prize is a joint initiative sponsored by CEOs for Cities, the Kresge Foundation, and the Lumina Foundation for Education. The Talent Dividend is one of several research benchmarks defined by the CEOs for Cities' City Dividends report, which calculates the monetary value of improved living and working conditions. The Talent Dividend, according to CEOs for Cities, is a one percent increase in the college attainment rate. Click here for more information about the Talent Dividend.
The prize will be a $1 million grant for the winning city to launch a national promotional campaign for the city that not only reaches its Talent Dividend, but also exhibits the greatest increase in the number of post-secondary degrees granted per one thousand people over a four-year period. Houston is competing with 56 other cities for the prize, though the cities often work together to discuss the best ways to reach the Talent Dividend.
While the grant would certainly allow us to bolster the notion of our city as one of the best in the nation, the true prize is seeing community leaders from a multitude of industries rally for the collective goal of increasing the number of Houstonians who graduate with a college degree. While the short-term goal is seeing our city supersede all the others in the rate of degree attainment, our long-term goal of achieving a culture that values education is being actualized as well.
The prize will be a $1 million grant for the winning city to launch a national promotional campaign for the city that not only reaches its Talent Dividend, but also exhibits the greatest increase in the number of post-secondary degrees granted per one thousand people over a four-year period. Houston is competing with 56 other cities for the prize, though the cities often work together to discuss the best ways to reach the Talent Dividend.
While the grant would certainly allow us to bolster the notion of our city as one of the best in the nation, the true prize is seeing community leaders from a multitude of industries rally for the collective goal of increasing the number of Houstonians who graduate with a college degree. While the short-term goal is seeing our city supersede all the others in the rate of degree attainment, our long-term goal of achieving a culture that values education is being actualized as well.