Sister Cities International Announces Winners of 2016 Annual Awards for Innovation in Economic Development
WASHINGTON, DC – The 2016 Sister Cities Innovation Award for Economic Development recognizes the accomplishments of outstanding community and individual sister city programs that work to promote peace through mutual respect, understanding, and cooperation.The award was given to sister city organizations from cities in three different population categories. The City of Monterey, California won for a city with a population less than 100,000; Birmingham Sister Cities (BSC) of Birmingham, Alabama won for cities with population between 100,000 and 300,000; and Baltimore ...
Global Economic Impact of Sister Cities International Released in New Study Totals Hundreds of Millions of Dollars
WASHINGTON, DC (October 7, 2015) – Today, Sister Cities International (SCI) released Measures That Matter℠, a study conducted in collaboration with valueideas, a management consulting firm, presenting the major economic benefits of sister city relationships in the U.S. and their impact on the global economy from 2014.For 60 years, SCI has formed thousands of strong, mutually beneficial sister city partnerships, with thousands of peopleto-people and municipal exchanges taking place each year. Highlights from the report show that in 2014 alone, 14,153 visitors came to ...
Sister Cities Trade Mission Sparks Global Business Initiatives
From the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea, the cities of Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Mataro, Spain began their sister city relationship based on the mutual interest of developing and expanding the Fort Lauderdale Marine Industries and Mataro Marina. Fort Lauderdale is known for their quality of repair work and servicing on yachts in their marina. Delegates from Mataro visited Fort Lauderdale to meet with local business owners to explore opportunities to develop the Port of Mataro as a repair and retrofit port which would service yachts traveling through the ...