Allegheny Conference on Community Development

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

Oct 29, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$9,326,160

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Ii. Strengthening communities: working to reduce disparity and remove government barriers to community vitality. A. Advocated for transportation and infrastructure improvements: 1. Supported development of an agreement among governor corbett's administration, allegheny county, the port authority and organized labor to prevent crippling transit cuts. 2. Worked with the allegheny county airport authority to extend nonstop air service to paris through the 2013 travel season and to add nonstop service to houston and west palm beach. 3. Helped pass p3 (public-private transportation partnership) legislation and the federal transportation reauthorization bill to support such projects as oakland-downtown bus rapid transit. B. Worked for more efficient, fiscally healthy government: 1. Helped pass legislation restoring act 47 provisions requiring arbitrations to consider distressed municipalities' fiscal condition in crafting labor contract awards to police and firefighters. 2. Established a blue-ribbon panel to develop recommendations to promote greater intergovernmental cooperation between alcosan and its 83 partner municipalities. Recommendations released in 2013. 3. Served on allegheny county executive's vision teams on critical issues including water quality and transportation infrastructure. 4. Supported the expanding coalition for sustainable communities (csc), a statewide alliance of business and local government associations helping communities address increasing economic and financial challenges. 5. Continued (with csc) to pursue act 111 (binding arbitration) and municipal pension law reform to strengthen fiscal health of communities.

Activity 3

Iii. Energizing tomorrow's economy: building our economy and improving our environment. A. Helped improve business climate: 1. Supported approval of tax credits to incentivize expanded energy-related manufacturing, spur hiring and job creation and redevelop historic urban cores. 2. Worked to continue capital stock and franchise tax phase-out and supported institution of a single sales factor formula to encourage investment and manufacturing job growth. 3. Supported reforms to the pennsylvania department of revenue tax appeals process and supported unemployment compensation reform to restore the system's solvency, resulting in predictable and less costly payments to employers. 4. Supported passage of act 13, which provides a comprehensive framework for development of the marcellus shale in a productive, responsible manner. 5. Established healthcare competiveness initiative to monitor near-term developments in the insurer and provider markets; completed benchmarking effort. B. Promoted career opportunities and innovation within the energy sector: 1. Executed successful campaign to promote public awareness of energy sector career opportunities, innovation and thought leadership through the energy alliance of greater pittsburgh. The "energy to the power of pittsburgh" campaign drove 60,000 jobseekers to employers through powerofpittsburgh.com, and promoted the sector to 21 million people worldwide through the web, broadcast, specialized publications and earned media. C. Forged and strengthened regional partnerships: 1. Helped to lead power of 32 follow-up actions to design and develop both a new regional site development fund and a regional venture capital "fund of funds" for innovation. 2. Teamed with the great lakes metro chambers coalition to advocate for the $105 billion fully-paid-for federal transportation reauthorization bill. 3. Chaired the techbelt initiative, a partnership spanning from cleveland through pittsburgh to morgantown that secured a $30 million federal grant to establish a national additive manufacturing innovation institute.

Filer

EIN

25-0965213