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Cincinnati exploring 100% renewable energy plan Pringles deal in question on Diamond profit restatement Duke won't pay to move utilities for Cincinnati streetcar http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/print-edition/2012/02/10/victor-garcia-enlists-cincinnati-ceos.html?page=all[2/10/2012 11:55:12 AM] Victor Garcia enlists Cincinnati CEOs’ help in healing the inner city - Business Courier Frisch's Big Boy makes his Super Bowl debut Related: Health Care , Human Resources See more popular stories » Deloitte Growth Enterprise Services: Lucy May Senior Staff Reporter/Associate Editor - Business Courier Email View photo gallery (2 photos) Everything changed for Dr Victor Garcia one day nearly seven years ago when he lost a 14-year-old girl to a gunshot wound in her chest Global resources with the personal touch of a trusted advisor for mid-market companies People Garcia knew what her family wanted to hear: that she died peacefully That his surgical team at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center had done everything possible to save her But he realized that wasn’t really true See More People Search and Contact all People More could – should – have been done, long before the girl was ever shot If it had been, Garcia reasoned, that child never would have lived such a short, brutal life “The day was, for me, a clarion call that I needed to something outside the operating room,” said Garcia, a pediatric surgeon and founding director of trauma services at Cincinnati Children’s “The promise that I made was that child didn’t die in vain.” Cincinnati Jobs Mark Bowen | Courier “Can we afford not to this?” said Dr Victor Garcia, the pediatric surgeon who started CoreChange Project Sales Manager | Cincinnati, OH Director, Academic (212UC1582) University of Cincinnati | Cincinnati, OH Vice President, Inforce Marketing Ever since, with almost evangelical fervor, Garcia has worked on a one-of-a-kind initiative called CoreChange to save Protective Life Corporation | Cincinnati, OH Director, Engineering Services Hill-Rom Company Inc | Cincinnati, OH http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/print-edition/2012/02/10/victor-garcia-enlists-cincinnati-ceos.html?page=all[2/10/2012 11:55:12 AM] Victor Garcia enlists Cincinnati CEOs’ help in healing the inner city - Business Courier Cincinnati’s inner city The goal: to turn the city’s at-risk youth into assets and transform its most blighted neighborhoods into marketing opportunities, all the while working to heal persistent problems of poverty, violence and disease It’s a monumental task, to be sure, but he’s found high-profile help Some of the region’s most prominent CEOs are aligned with Garcia, helping to fund a three-day summit later this month aimed at designing a strategy to fix what’s broken with the city’s core “Vic is one of the most passionate and compassionate people I know,” said Lee Carter, who was chairman of Cincinnati Children’s board when he first started working with Garcia on CoreChange “A lot of people would have given up on this And Vic just put his head down and kept plowing.” Director, Network Engineering Vantiv | Cincinnati, OH Post a Job | View More Jobs Listings Related News Cincinnati Bell launching remote tech help service Cincinnati Bell's CyrusOne to open Singapore data center Cincinnati Children's tops in U.S for revenue Despite stats, Agenda 360 authors won’t give in Cooperation Agenda 360's biggest goal Even so, nobody expects it to be easy “It’s hard not to notice that the road to hell is paved with good intentions,” said Cincinnati Bell Inc. CEO Jack Cassidy, a CoreChange supporter “The last thing the inner city needs is a bunch of people from suburbia coming in and telling them what their problems are and trying to fix it The CoreChange initiative is something different.” Cincinnati Real Estate Garcia aims to pack the Millennium Hotel downtown for the summit, which runs Feb 17-19 He wants CEOs and university professors and doctors and judges to be there But he also wants single mothers and gang members and the chronically unemployed young men who populate the inner city and know its problems firsthand http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/print-edition/2012/02/10/victor-garcia-enlists-cincinnati-ceos.html?page=all[2/10/2012 11:55:12 AM] Featured Property Price: $4,975,200 Building Size: 15,000 SF Use Type: Sale View This Listing Victor Garcia enlists Cincinnati CEOs’ help in healing the inner city - Business Courier “It just makes common sense that if somebody is part of devising a plan, they’re going to own it, and they’re going to stick with it and be a part of it,” Carter said “Cincinnati is on a roll And we’ve got to make the core city safe, not only as a moral imperative but also as an economic one.” The way Garcia sees it, young people who survive in the urban core are creative by necessity A goal of the CoreChange summit is to find a way to harness that ingenuity and aim it in a direction that makes the community better He’s been hatching the idea with Peter Senge, a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and author of “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization,” and David Cooperrider, who has led large, solutions-oriented summits for the likes of the U.S Navy and the United Nations See More Real Estate View Local Events Find opportunities in Cincinnati to network, learn about your industry or introduce yourself to the community View Calendar The idea of bringing so many different people together makes perfect sense to LPK CEO Jerry Kathman “It’s very similar to the process that design agencies use The fashionable business term is ‘design thinking,’” said Kathman, whose downtown design firm created the CoreChange name and look pro bono “It’s about building on the positive and nonjudgmental.” Learn the secrets of options trading from Bernie Schaeffer – free! Sign up Free here ‘An idea whose time has come’ Four simple steps to making your first forex trade Corporations and community groups, including United Way of Greater Cincinnati, have contributed $300,000 to bring Cooperrider to town for the summit and host the three days of meetings for 500 people or more Click Here Now Get Real Gold Delivery to Your Home To Garcia, the business case is clear The U.S population isn’t keeping pace with countries such as China and India To compete in the global economy, no community can afford to waste the human capital that languishes in inner city poverty, he said Add to that the costs of incarceration and health care related to violence, obesity, asthma and other factors linked to poverty, and Garcia argues the question becomes, “Can we afford not to this?” Local leaders want to make sure the work of CoreChange complements other efforts under way, such as the Agenda 360 and Vision 2015 community action plans and the United Way of Greater Cincinnati’s Agenda for Community Impact Executives with those groups all plan to attend the summit The goal is not to start another new program, said Carol Aquino, vice president of marketing for the local United Way And those working on improving the community through those other efforts want to see this new approach in action, said Mary Free Investor Kit Verizon Wireless At Verizon, we give our customers the power to connect to the world Just imagine what we can for your career Whether you're just starting out or are a seasoned http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/print-edition/2012/02/10/victor-garcia-enlists-cincinnati-ceos.html?page=all[2/10/2012 11:55:12 AM] Victor Garcia enlists Cincinnati CEOs’ help in healing the inner city - Business Courier Stagaman, executive director of Agenda 360 at the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber “There are no silver bullets,” Stagaman said “Having a group of passionate people who are focusing on how we solve these problems could be a huge advantage.” Cassidy said he certainly thinks it’s worth tackling the issue Garcia’s way Where most of the rest of us read about poverty and violence, Garcia sees children killed in drive-by shootings, Cassidy said, and his motives are honorable professional, we have the opportunities to meet your ambitions and advance your expertise Join us and build your future in a company that's leading tomorrow's technology, today Visit our career site to learn more “Do they possess the magic wand? I don’t think so,” Cassidy said “Conversation has a way of crystallizing genius And if you don’t sit down and talk about it and work on the issue from the inside out, I don’t think you have much of a chance of success.” Garcia sees the upcoming summit as the beginning He wants the people there to keep talking and keep working to make Cincinnati’s inner city better in a collaboration that – if it works – could become a model for cities around the country That might seem unrelated to Garcia’s busy day job as a pediatric surgeon and professor But for him, it’s all connected Garcia recalled the words of his close friend Ross Love, the local business leader and civic activist who died in 2010 “As many times as I could save a child in the operating room, as Ross said, I could save more lives in this work,” Garcia said “This is an idea whose time has come.” Lucy May covers nonprofits, urban affairs and economic development; edits weekly Insight section Tweet Share Adobe eLearning Suite 2.5 & FREE Download: Why SIP productivity Makes Sense Rapidly create winning eLearning Learn from XO the advantages of content, publish and track withou SIP as an enabler of Unified http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/print-edition/2012/02/10/victor-garcia-enlists-cincinnati-ceos.html?page=all[2/10/2012 11:55:12 AM] Victor Garcia enlists Cincinnati CEOs’ help in healing the inner city - Business Courier www.adobe.com/captivate Commu www.xo.com/SIP-Trunking-White-Paper Ads By Marchex Comments If you are commenting using a Facebook account, your profile information may be displayed with your comment depending on your privacy settings By leaving the 'Post to Facebook' box selected, your comment will be published to your Facebook profile in addition to the space below Inside the Business Courier http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/print-edition/2012/02/10/victor-garcia-enlists-cincinnati-ceos.html?page=all[2/10/2012 11:55:12 AM] Victor Garcia enlists Cincinnati CEOs’ help in healing the inner city - Business Courier ONLINE SERVICES SUBSCRIPTIONS TOOLS ABOUT AFFILIATES News Book Of Lists Subscribe To Paper Newsletters Advertise Portfolio Industries Commercial Property Trial Subscription Syndication/RSS Contact Us Sports Business Journal Events Local Business Directory Renew Subscription Twitter About The Paper SportsBusiness Daily People Jobs Single Copies Mobile About The Business Journals Sporting News Research MyBookofLists Digital Edition Submit People Mass High Tech Purchase Search Premium Content Mobile App TechFlash Careers Subscribe To Paper Subscriber FAQs LinkedIn Today Sustainable Business Oregon Contact Us Help Help Book Of Lists Hemmings Motor News Change Mailing Address © 2012 American City Business Journals, Inc and its licensors All rights reserved The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of bizjournals Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy About our ads http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/print-edition/2012/02/10/victor-garcia-enlists-cincinnati-ceos.html?page=all[2/10/2012 11:55:12 AM]