Metropolitan Richmond Day

This annual event convenes leaders from the public and private sectors to discuss key regional issues, and to encourage partnership across differences of race, class and jurisdiction. Since 1996 Hope in the Cities has brought stimulating and provocative speakers to Richmond to explore historic perspectives, current realities, and future hopes for regional cooperation in the Richmond metropolitan area.

Metropolitan Richmond Day 2010 - The Trust Factor

Tuesday, November 9, 7:30am - 9:00am, Downtown Marriott Hotel

Wallace Stettinius (Photo: Web graphic)

Wallace Stettinius, former Chairman and CEO of Cadmus Communications Corporation, will be the keynote speaker. Stettinius, who has invested much time and energy in community building in the metropolitan region, will speak on the theme of 'the trust factor in bridging the socio-economic divides'.

Price: $30 for the community breakfast

Sponsorship: $250 for a non-profit table of 10 people. Corporate sponsorships available.

Special offer for Metropolitan Richmond Day 2010!

For $50 you will have a place at the breakfast and receive a signed copy of the book Trustbuilding: an honest conversation on race, reconciliation, and responsibility by Rob Corcoran. This book is part narative and part handbook for a model of community change. At the center of the story is how Richmond has become a seedbed for interacial dialogue and trustbuilding. 

When people engage, communities change!  

Call us at 804 358 1764 or email us for more information on the 2010 program. 

Metropolitan Richmond Day 2009 offered an interactive discussion using polling technology and table discussions on education, race relations, and socioeconomic differences. Read the report.

The 2008 speaker, former Mayor of Charlotte, NC, Richard Vinroot, addressed hundreds of community leaders drawing on his experience of forging creative partnerships. At the public forum following the breakfast Vinroot engaged with a panel of Richmond citizens . Read the report