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City builder David Pecaut has been called a visionary and a pragmatist, passionate and compassionate, a bridge builder, a catalyst, and a trailblazer. Though David was a business leader and management consultant, most of these accolades flow from his volunteer work as a civic entrepreneur. A native of Sioux City, Iowa, David chose Toronto as the beneficiary of his formidable enthusiasm.

When Toronto was in the doldrums because of the SARS scare, David helped the city restore its tourism industry by chairing the Toront03 Alliance, launched by a flamboyant Rolling Stones concert. David was perhaps best known for co-founding Luminato, the international festival that each spring showcases the worlds finest artists to audiences of over a million.

As chair of the Toronto City Summit Alliance, David worked as easily with the homeless, minorities, and poverty activists as with billionaires, corporate CEOs, and labour leaders to tackle pressing social and economic issues. He was the driving force behind the Career Edge youth internship program, the Strong Neighbourhoods Task Force, the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council, DiverseCity, the Emerging Leaders Network, the task force on modernizing income security, and Greening Greater Toronto.

Davids efforts to make Toronto the most socially and culturally dynamic urban centre in the world were cut short when he succumbed to cancer in December 2009. When it became obvious that his time was running out, he took copious notes and recorded interviews with friends, colleagues, and family, all of which are the basis for this book, a memoir by his wife Helen Burstyn.

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ELEVEN OUT OF TEN
The Life and Work of
David
Pecaut
Helen Burstyn
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Dedication
For David and with David, always
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
O ne of Davids greatest gifts as a civic leader and entrepreneur was his ability to attract, inspire, and mobilize legions of talented, committed people, all of whom played important roles in his life and work. Thank you to everyone who inspired David and made it possible for him, in turn, to inspire you. If you were a part of Davids life, you are also a part of his story.
I particularly want to acknowledge and thank the many people who helped make this book possible. Some of you are identified by name and some perhaps not enough or not at all. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is generally intentional and any omissions are certainly not.
My first debt of thanks is to Anna Porter, who guided me through the unfamiliar and sometimes terrifying process of writing a memoir and getting it published. You did this initially because David asked you to, but ultimately because you wanted to, and I am grateful for your kindness as well as your friendship.
Thank you to Sylvia Fraser, who worked with me on this memoir by helping me find the words and the way to tell Davids story. Anna was right to recommend you as my collaborator, and it was lucky for me that I took her advice. This book would never have happened without you.
Thank you to David Wolfe, whose many conversations with David and transcribed audiotapes provided rich source material for understanding what makes a civic entrepreneur.
Thank you to the many friends and colleagues at The Boston Consulting Group, the Toronto City Summit Alliance (now CivicAction), Luminato, the Governments of Ontario, Canada, and the City of Toronto, along with many other organizations for providing the speeches, videos, articles, and other materials that formed the bedrock for this book.
Thank you to the Burstyn and Pecaut families for sharing your stories and allowing me to share them.
Thank you to the many other friends, family, and colleagues who read this memoir at various stages and offered thoughtful comments, along with honest advice.
And finally, thank you to David for trusting me with this incredibly difficult but ultimately rewarding assignment, and giving us one last chance to work together.
INTRODUCTION
M y husband, David Pecaut, has been called a visionary and a pragmatist, fearless and funny, passionate, compassionate, indefatigable, a bridge builder, a catalyst, a dynamo, a trailblazer, and the smartest person Ive ever met by a variety of other smart people.
Though David was a business leader and management consultant, most of these accolades flowed from his volunteer work. He called himself a civic entrepreneur someone who convened diverse people of goodwill for the betterment of the community. While David was a native of Sioux City, Iowa, he chose Toronto as the beneficiary of his formidable enthusiasm. He was thrilled by the openness and vibrancy that he discovered on his arrival here in the 1980s, and he wanted to help make Toronto the most socially and culturally dynamic urban centre in the world as a model for other cities.
No matter what computer is invented, or how powerful, David Pecaut proved the superiority of the human brain in his ability to imagine, said John Tory, Davids successor as chair of the Toronto City Summit Alliance, the umbrella group for much of Davids pro bono work. Ive heard David described as a popcorn machine of ideas. He also had the rare ability to follow through and to persuade others to rally around. The day I went to his office to recruit him for City Summit was the luckiest day for Toronto in recent civic history.
When Toronto was in the doldrums because of the SARS scare, David helped the city shake its stigma and restore its tourism industry by chairing the Toront03 Alliance, launched by a flamboyant Rolling Stones rock concert attracting four hundred thousand people. David also co-founded Luminato , the international festival that each spring showcases the worlds finest artists to audiences of over a million. Its a lovely thing when you confide your dreams to someone and that person can imagine them as well as you can, says Karen Kain, artistic director of the National Ballet and a member of Luminatos artistic advisory committee.
David negotiated effectively with every level of government and every political party, both in and out of power. He also worked as easily with the homeless, new immigrants, and poverty activists as with billionaires, cultural czars, corporate CEOs, educators, bank presidents, and labour leaders. Keenly aware of inequality of opportunity, he helped bring educational and social resources to the GTAs poverty pockets with the Strong Neighbourhoods Task Force. He also embraced the Pathways to Education program, flinging university doors open to youth in danger of dropping out or falling prey to gang culture. He would listen to a lot of chatter blah blah blah then pick out the one key point and drive it home, remembers Sam Duboc, chair of Pathways.
David co-chaired Modernizing Income Security for Working Age Adults Task Force with Susan Pigott, CEO of St. Christopher House, an effort that dramatically improved the health and social assistance the federal and Ontario governments would provide for the working poor. With David, it was always fast-forward, says Susan. He made a phenomenal difference in improving public policy in a way that directly affected lives. He was also the most generous-spirited person Ive ever met.
As a great believer in mentorship, David founded Career Edge, a national youth internship program that has helped ten thousand university and college grads launch their careers. Because he considered immigrants an undervalued resource, he and Ratna Omidvar, president of the Maytree Foundation, a private organization that worked to support immigrants, fight poverty, and build community, founded the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council. TRIEC has helped thousands of skilled newcomers overcome cultural barriers and find work worthy of their talents. This was followed by DiverseCity, an initiative to help visible minorities achieve civic leadership.
David used his knowledge of international markets to help the Toronto Region Research Alliance attract high-tech global companies to the Golden Horseshoe. He also worked with the provincial government to help Ontario position itself as the location of choice for investment. Every all-star team has a superstar, and that was David, said corporate executive and TRRA chair Courtney Pratt. Gretzky knew where a puck would go, but David managed to get the puck to go where he wanted it.
Even after David had undergone surgery for colorectal cancer in 2004, he co-chaired Greening Greater Toronto, created to tackle air and water pollution, energy use, and waste disposal. David was determined to make the GTA the greenest area in North America.
In all his enterprises, David credited the people he convened around the table for finding community solutions to community problems. He was always backed by a crack fact-finding team from The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he was a senior partner. One BCG colleague described the meeting in which he recruited their support: He spoke for an hour, no notes, no slides, laying out all the ways we could transform the city, supported by facts that he insisted be of the highest quality. He would never accept hearsay.
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