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SFRRC (Lto R): Michael Busha, Executive Director, Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council; Carolyn Dekle, Excutive Director, South Florida Regional Planning Council; James F. Murley, Director, Catanese Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions; and Rod Petrey, President, Collins Center for Public Policy
SFRRC (Lto R): Michael Busha, Executive Director, Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council; Carolyn Dekle, Excutive Director, South Florida Regional Planning Council; James F. Murley, Director, Catanese Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions; and Rod Petrey, President, Collins Center for Public Policy
The South Florida Regional Resource Center (SFRRC) assists neighborhood, city, county, and civic organizations with local needs and educates these organizations about the importance of collaboration to achieve regional objectives with local importance. SFRRC was developed to serve as a resource to South Florida’s communities by offering access to technical support and new community planning tools; education and empowering community leaders; and connecting the region’s citizens to public policy decisions.

SFRRC is a partnership between the Center for Urban & Environmental Solutions (CUES) at FAU, the Collins Center for Public Policy, Inc., the South Florida Regional Planning Council, and the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council. The SFRRC, through its partners, works to ensure that local groups, partner organizations, and other public and private regional entities work collaboratively together to shape regional public policy in South Florida.

SFRRC has supported the State Road 7/US 441 Collaborative, a unique partnership with a mission to promote the economic and aesthetic improvement of the State Road 7 corridor in Broward County; Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in South Florida, a project that convenes an Intermodal Task Force of major stakeholders to oversee and direct redevelopment work of aging urban areas while analyzing  and developing a TOD prototype for the region; Linking Community Building Intermediaries, a project that focuses on linking organizations that are serving in some important way as “community-building intermediaries” (1) directly to community-based organizations so that the services of intermediaries can be used effectively and (2) among themselves to encourage intermediaries collectively to offer a full range of services by defining and developing their specialized capacities and by reducing unneeded duplications of services; and The Annual Regional Excellence Awards Luncheon that honors individuals for their commitment to regional thinking and action in South Florida.

SFRRC’s overall vision is to build capacity for regional stewardship or governance by drawing on the strengths of established and emerging regional organizations. By helping to network these organizations and establishing collaborations amongst them, the SFRRC will move regional leadership towards the development of a viable entity that will serve to represent the entire seven-county region.

“The SFRRC is generously supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.”
For more information, please contact George Gadson at 954.762.5255 or ggadson@fau.edu..