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. Please check the corresponding audio before quoting in print. Transcripts are generated using a combination of speech recognition software and human transcribers and may contain errors.
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