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San Bernardino County Workforce Investment Board Helps Small Business Start-Up
freeNewsArticles Story Summary: In San Bernardino County, site selection and hiring assistance programs are helping promising new businesses launch in spite of a tough economy. The County of San Bernardino Board of Supervisors knows that a business-friendly environment is one of the keys to economic recovery and vitality and carefully invests funding from the Workforce Investment Act to bring more employers to the region….
JLA Home to Create 100 New Jobs in Savannah by 2011
freeNewsArticles Story Summary: Savannah will see 100 new jobs by 2011, due to Dermody Properties’/DP Partners’ sale of a 689,400 square-foot building in its LogistiPort Industrial Park to JLA Home for an East Coast assembly and distribution center, SEDA announced today….
12 EDGE Fund Applications Approved to Advance to Second Phase of 2010 Funding Process
freeNewsArticles Story Summary: OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — The Economic Development Generating Excellence Policy Board announced that 12 pre-proposal applications from an initial field of 62 have been approved to advance to the next step in the 2010 funding evaluation process. This year represents the third round of funding disbursement from the EDGE fund; in 2009, five awards were granted totaling $7.5 million….
Savannah Economic Development Authority brings Savannah to Atlanta Sept. 2
freeNewsArticles Story Summary: ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 27 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — The Savannah Economic Development Authority is bringing Savannah to Atlanta to launch its newly restructured Web site, seda.org, on Tuesday, Sept. 2. The event will showcase the best of Savannah including its resources, talent and quality of life….
Foothills Community Partnership Fund Established in Collaboration with the Community Foundation of Calhoun County
freeNewsArticles Story Summary: ANNISTON, Ala., July 9 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — The Foothills Community Partnership (FCP) officially presented a charitable contribution of $500,000 to the Community Foundation of Calhoun County at a celebration this afternoon. The gift establishes the Foothills Community Partnership Fund, which will be administered and guided by the Community Foundation of Calhoun County to address critical human-care needs in the greater community….
GSP Consulting Economic Architecture Experts to Present at National Economic Development Conference
freeNewsArticles Story Summary: PITTSBURGH, Pa. – Oct. 16 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Executives from Pittsburgh-based GSP Consulting will present to a gathering of economic development leaders from around the country at a national conference this week in Baltimore. Dr. Jerry Paytas, Director of Research in GSP’s Economic Architecture practice, will lead a discussion titled ‘Best TBED (Technology Based Economic Development) Practices…to Avoid,’ on October 18 at the State Science and Technology Institute’s (SSTI) 11th Annual Conference….
GSP Economic Architecture Expert to Speak at the 12th Annual Minnesota Development Conference
freeNewsArticles Story Summary: ST. PAUL, Minn. – Sept. 18 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Leading economic development expert Dr. Jerry Paytas will discuss Regional Competitiveness: Best Practices and Lessons Learned at the 12th Annual Minnesota Development Conference ‘Harnessing Minnesota’s Ingenuity’ on September 26, 2007. Paytas, Director of Research at GSP Consulting, is a nationally-recognized economic development expert….
Momentum Chippewa Valley Taps GSP Consulting for Economic Development Assessment and Strategy
freeNewsArticles Story Summary: EAU CLAIRE, Wis. – Aug. 13 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Economic and development opportunities in West Central Wisconsin will be the focus of a formal study of the region being commissioned by Momentum Chippewa Valley (MCV). The study kicked off August 9 with a visioning session in which local leaders developed a framework for the future economic development of the region….