Project Updates (Page 7)

Haden Springer and Lindsay Johnson traveled to Spartanburg, South Carolina to deliver a training on using labor market intelligence to engage industry partners on behalf of the Multi-State Advanced Manufacturing Consortium (M-SAMC).

Each year, the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness (CREC) hires a number of interns who help the organization during the busy summer period. Each is offered an opportunity to learn how the organization helps municipalities, states, and regions respond to changes in local job markets; and CREC specifically works with undergraduate and graduate students who need academic credit. […]

The Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness (CREC), in partnership with the Multi-State Advanced Manufacturing Consortium (M-SAMC), has produced a number of training videos that show community college administrators how to best use federal statistical agency programs to understand their local communities and build programs that better serve their students’ needs. Specifically, the videos use tools […]

Martin Romitti and Erik Pages, of Entreworks Consulting, supported by Sarah Gutschow, William Cook, and Randall Arthur finalized an interactive Lakeshore Manufacturing Directory and Supply Chain Networking Maps illustrating supply chains for the region’s manufacturing base.

Ken Poole, Martin Romitti, Mark White, Sarah Gutschow, Parry Carter joined by Ellen Harpel, and Ed Feser, concluded their report to the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC), recommending several changes to improve WEDC’s oversight of its economic development programs.

The Council for Community Economic Research (C2ER), Labor Market Information (LMI) Institute, and Projections Managing Partnership (PMP) Board of Directors met at CREC headquarters in Arlington, Virginia to discuss recent accomplishments and ongoing activities, and to plan goals for the upcoming calendar year.

.@CRECnet's state economic development agency leaders workshop has kicked off in Phoenix. #econdev pic.twitter.com/Ol1oO8GoaB — Parry Carter (@PCarter222) November 18, 2015 State agency economic development secretaries from Hawaii to New England met for two days in Phoenix to discuss the challenges and opportunities they face in developing and delivering programs for the people they serve. […]

John Moratta and Lindsay Johnson traveled to Rochester, New York to conduct a site visit, in conjunction with NIST-MEP, in preparation for an outcomes report on the impacts of the Advanced Manufacturing Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge (AMJIAC).

The Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER), one of three associations that the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness (CREC) manages, today released the State of State Business Incentives 2015 report which reflects the present status of the more than 1,900 state business incentives in operation around the U.S. The report is based a recent review that C2ER performed for its State […]

Martin Romitti served as a panelist for the National Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB) webinar on data-driven performance: Transforming Data into Intelligence for Workforce Development Program Success.