The third trend was the idea that maybe our communities are seen less empathy than we have seen in the past. So imagine going through that on a regular basis. So we all got a little taste of that during the pandemic. And think about how that's been that's exacerbated during the pandemic.
It's not heart disease, it's social isolation and loneliness. Second macro trend is this idea that one of the largest health risks for that population is not cancer. So if you think you've seen a lot of baby boomers retire recently, you ain't seen nothing yet, because we're not done.
And we're about halfway into that wave right now. Like 10,000 baby boomers turning 65 every day for 19 years. That is not where the name comes from, but we picked five macro trends and they were some of the trends you're probably aware of. And we picked five in the end that we wanted to try and address. And this book is just chock-full of data and trends, and I highly recommend it, but we started thinking about could we create a program at the city of Springfield that would address multiple trends at the same time? So we identified some macro trends and these are trends where things changed slowly over multiple years. When I was at the city and working with Cora, we were reading a book called The Next America. Greg or Cora, go ahead and just give us the basics. Mine's a 55 Chevy pickup because that was my first vehicle that I owned. Cars are obviously one part of that festival there. You two were formally coworkers and still working together on this project.Ĭora also runs the Birthplace of the Route 66 Festival, which has grown in attendance from 4,000 all the way up to 65,000, which are amazing numbers just in five years. So we're not even going to clarify for that good audience.Īnd Cora Scott director of Public Information and Civic Engagement for the City of Springfield, Missouri. Many obvious follow ups, but I actually think it's more interesting to leave it a mystery. An interesting note on Greg is you pole vaulted for your high school that neither had a pole nor a pit. Long time in service of the local government and then you kind of transitioned over to the United Way, which is part of the Give 5 story we'll get to. So Greg Burris, President and CEO of the United Way of the Ozarks and previous City Manager of Springfield, Missouri from 2008 to 2018. My name is Joe Supervielle and with us today to share a real world local government success story on civic matchmaking between highly skilled retired baby boomers, matching them with meaningful local projects are the co-founders of the Give 5 Program, Greg Burris and Cora Scott. Welcome to Voices in Local Government, an ICMA podcast.
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