Action Calgary: It will engage participating businesses in projects that will benefit both their own companies, and their own community.  It's corporate engagement, participation and investment with a solid business payback.

Action Calgary is a CED-led program to engage Calgary's corporate community in a partnership to deliver results, beginning with strategic projects that support business and employment growth and diversification.

All participating partner companies will benefit. As a partner, you'll be in a position to align your own particular business interests with the CED projects. You'll have exclusive opportunities to provide feedback and direction for Calgary's economic future.

You'll have other, very tangible, market penetration and revenue enhancement advantages too.

For example, access to high value business profile and showcasing opportunities. Business tools.

National and international networks and contacts.

Plus you'll have a very important intangible benefit: the pride that comes from leading the future of your own community.

All projects fall under three strategic Action Calgary initiatives identified in the Calgary Economic Development Strategy:

1. Workforce development and productivity
   1. Live In Calgary: workforce attraction and settlement
   2. WORKshift: the Calgary Region Telework Initiative
   3. Productivity Alberta: Industry productivity initiative
2. Industry development and diversification
   1. Energy Centre: Calgary as THE global energy centre 
   2. Financial Services Industry Attraction: making Calgary a financial services leader
   3. Digital & Creative Hub: for the film, TV & creative industries
   4. Transportation & Logistics Gateway: Calgary as a distribution gateway
3. Extending our international reach
   1. Global Business Centre

These initiatives have been specifically designed to meet challenges faced by businesses here in Calgary, but will need funding from those same businesses. As an Action Calgary partner, you'll be making an investment to ensure your own head start position in Calgarys emerging global economy. And you'll participate with other visionary leaders in making an investment in the future of the community in which you live and do business. Your private sector investment will leverage other incremental government funding for innovative, made-in-Calgary-for-Calgary projects.

But without the participation and partnership of the business community, these initiatives cannot and will not happen.

For more information on Action Calgary contact:

Richard Gotfried
Vice President, Corporate & Community Engagement
403.221.7841
rgotfried@calgaryeconomicdevelopment.com 

Action Calgary brochure - October 2009 - 1,819KB

Action Calgary Partners

PLATINUM    

GOLD    

SILVER

• Alberta Health Services
• Aecon
• Aspen Properties Ltd.
• ATCO
• Barclay Street Real Estate
• Bow Valley College
• Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP
• Calgary Flames Hockey Club
• Calgary TELUS Convention Centre
• Calgary Regional Partnership
• Canadian Pacific
• Cenovus Energy
• Enbridge
• Evans Hunt Group
• Gowlings
• Innovate Calgary
• Ivanhoe Cambridge
• JOE Media Group
• KPMG
• Marathon Oil Canada Corporation
• Mortgage Fund Three (MF3)
• NATIONAL Public Relations
• Nexen Inc.
• OPUS Corporation
• RedPoint Media
• Resorts of the Canadian Rockies (RCR) 
• RGO Office Products
• Sasges Inc.
• Suncor Energy Inc.
• Tervita
• Trico Homes
• University of Calgary
• WAM Development
• WestJet
• White Iron Inc.

BRONZE

• ACAD (Alberta College of Art and Design)
• Axia NetMedia Corporation
• Bennett Jones LLP
• BKDI Architects 
• Calgary Chamber of Commerce 
• Calgary Opera
• Devitt & Forand Contractors Inc. 
• ELEMENT Integrated Workplace Solutions 
• Encana Corporation
• First Calgary Financial
• Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP (FMC) Calgary
• HARMONY by Bordeaux Developments
• Haworth Inc.
• hbi - heritage business interiors Inc. 
• Lawson Projects 
• Matthews Southwest 
• PwC
• Quintaro Imaging
• RBC
• SAIT Polytechnic
• Sizeland Evans Interior Design Inc.
• SNC-Lavalin Inc.
• Theatre Calgary
• VRV Global
• Western Management Consultants
• Zoom Web Video Integration