Project Updates (Page 3)
May 18, 2015
Ken Poole and Haden Springer presented Balancing Confidentiality and Access: Sharing Employment and Wage Data for Policy Analysis and Research to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri.
May 15, 2015
Ken Poole presented results from the CREC-WVU report, “Appalachia Then and Now: Examining Changes to the Appalachian Region since 1965” to listening sessions in Forest City, North Carolina.
May 14, 2015
Erol Yildirim, Mark White, and William Cook met with representatives from Henry Ford College to further develop workforce information tools and training for the Multi-State Advanced Manufacturing Consortium (MSAMC) in Dearborn, Michigan.
May 14, 2015
Martin Romitti, joined by Erik Pages of Entreworks, traveled to Wisconsin to hold a series of manufacturing focus groups to identify new supply chain and market opportnities within the state’s Lakeshore region.
May 11, 2015
Ken Poole, Ron Kelly, and Marty Romitti presented at the State Small Business Conference (SSBCI) at the U.S. Department of the Treasury in Washington D.C.
May 4, 2015
Ron Kelly represented the LMI Institute at the National Association of Workforce Development Professionals (NAWDP) conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.
May 1, 2015
Ron Kelly led the Northwest Pennsylvania Workforce Investment Board (NWPA-WIB) in a strategy retreat to create goals and actionable steps for upcoming operations in Erie, Pennsylvania.
April 29, 2015
Ron Kelly met with program staff for the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (PDCED) small business lending programs funded by the U.S. Treasury’s State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI).
April 23, 2015
Ron Kelly and Haden Springer delivered training for Goodwill of Arizona, Maximus, and Arizona Women’s Education and Employment, Inc. (AWEE) for the Arizona Commerce Authority in Phoenix, Arizona.
April 22, 2015
Mark White presented on economic diversity and entrepreneurship at the Coal-Reliant Communities Innovation Challenge Workshop in Pikeville, Kentucky.