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05 ANNUAL REPORT | CONVERGENCE | COLLABORATION | COMPETITIVENESS | ALLEGHENY CONFERENCE ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND ITS AFFILIATES PITTSBURGH REGIONAL ALLIANCE GREATER PITTSBURGH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PENNSYLVANIA ECONOMY LEAGUE OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ABOUT THE CONFERENCE The PENNSYLVANIA ECONOMY LEAGUE OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA, LLC Founded in 1944, the Allegheny Conference established in 1936, provides public policy on Community Development is the leading research and analysis. economic and community development organization for the 10-county Pittsburgh The GREATER PITTSBURGH CHAMBER OF region of southwestern Pennsylvania. COMMERCE, southwestern Pennsylvania’s Together with public and private sector leading business organization for more partners, we work to stimulate growth and than 100 years, advocates at all levels of improve our region’s quality of life. Our government to secure public sector focus is 0n economic competitiveness and investment and legislative and regulatory regional promotion. The Conference relies improvements to the region’s public sector upon the Regional Investors Council, a business climate. broad-based coalition of more than 270 member companies and organizations, to The PITTSBURGH REGIONAL ALLIANCE provide time, talent and resources to further markets southwestern Pennsylvania to the Conference agenda. employers across the region and around the world, to encourage job creation and Through three affiliated organizations, capital investment. which also have long and impressive legacies, the Conference provides research and analysis, advocacy and marketing to advance the vision of its leadership. | CONVERGENCE | COLLABORATION | COMPETITIVENESS | FROM THE CHAIRMAN Simply put, the people of Pittsburgh live in a 250-year tradition of world-changing in which we have built a competitive advan- a great region – and the list of evidence is innovation to accelerate the growth of tage, including life sciences, information long and compelling.
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