The First Impressions Strategy Team, in collaborate with many others, is leading an initiative to connect college students with our regional com...

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 Both the Placemaking and First Impressions committees have identified Wayfinding as a future project. The teams have decided to collaborate to c...

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 All Leap employees have taken the pledge to be a JA class instructor for the 2010/2011 school year. The challenge has been extended to increase ...

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 So far, 135 businesses have pledged their support for life-long learning in greater Lansing.  It's great progress to date, but to reach the...

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 Passport to Adventure is going strong.  Students and families have until August 31 to fill their Passport postcards and mail them back for ...

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 The event will take place in the summer of 2011 and will consist of community groups and teams improving a public area that needs help. Resident...

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 The program plans to get started in the next few months. The plan will hopefully distribute collateral branded with the regional logo and taglin...

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 This program works to offer a certification course to front-line employees who come into contact with any and all tourist and residents of Great...

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 This year’s EET will take place at the Hannah Community Center in November. The event will be open to the public and students.

 The IFS Cluster is quickly growing legs and will soon be completely up and running. Jamie Hess, Education Consultant, Office of Career and Techn...

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 Pulitzer nominated author and journalist will begin his tour in Greater Lansing following the Leap board meeting. Clifton and Gary Schoeniger, f...

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 Next Bright Idea 2011 will be launching this fall in similar fashion as 2010. On December 6, 2010, the submissions will begin rolling in and vot...

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 The Regional Entrepreneurial Collaborative grand put out by DeLeg is a grant given to enhance a regions entrepreneurial community. In Greater La...

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 The first group of roundtables has met 3 times and continues to collaborate. The second group plans to start meeting this fall. This group is lo...

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 After winding down from the first mentoring session, the Leap has been developing invitation list for next group and hopes to start again in Sep...

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Leap and the SBTDC have been working together to refine the list of 2500+ new businesses in the region to determine which are still in business and wh...

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Dan Redford and Charles Eveslage, our team at the Shanghai Expo will end their work there on July 31.  While there, their blogs (www.shanghai-exp...

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 Arel Moodie of the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour will be hosting a Free Webinar on July 15 at 8pm EST.  'It's going to be some insanely aw...

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In the Greater Lansing area, over 30 festivals celebrate arts and culture through exhibits, performances, cultural activities, and educational opportu...

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Kent Love, Communications Director for Wharton Center, is leading an initiative for Michigan State University to connect incoming freshman to the Grea...

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This project’s goal will be to encourage residents to take pride in their communities by committing to beautify a portion of public space in Greater L...

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 This initiative was developed based on the idea of ‘Be a Tourist in Your Own Town’. 4th grade students will be given a passport at the end of th...

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 Guest Blogger and Greater Lansing Next Strategy Team member, Kate Tykocki talks about the importance of being a 'Tourist in your Own Town' 

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This initiative is intended to improve multi-modal transportation that supports, sustains and grows economic value in the Michigan Avenue - Grand Rive...

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The Cities of Lansing and East Lansing along with Lansing Charter Township have been working together to create a joint Corridor Improvement Authority...

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Touch all start-up businesses in the region by the end of 2010.  There are 2500 businesses that have started in the Greater Lansing region in the...

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Michigan Avenue is the “Main Street” for our region and it is the focus of several initiatives that will improve both the way the corridor functions a...

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This program was developed to connect five emerging entrepreneurs with five established entrepreneurs to engage in conversation and to create a sense ...

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The Greater Lansing Convention and Visitors Bureau is developing the Greater Lansing Tourism Ambassador Program for the Greater Lansing region. T...

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Greater Lansing regional brand - “Greater Lansing. Where it all comes together.” The team is developing a “tool kit” of resources to make availab...

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Focused on improving transit connections in the Greater Lansing Region as well as building the region’s green infrastructure.  Leap has partnered...

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Keep Learning is a coalition of businesses, government, media and educators that recognizes the need to put a high value on education in our community...

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Recently graduated MSU students, Dan Redford and Charles Eveslage were selected to serve as U.S. student ambassadors at the 2010 World Expo in Shangha...

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 Leap is bringing back the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour on November 10.   The tour brings some of the country’s top entrepreneurs to c...

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JA is currently teaching about 180 classes right now, only reaching about 8% of the 83,000 tri-county K-12 students.  Leap CEO Denyse Ferguson wi...

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This web-based tool will feature a comprehensive database of the Greater Lansing region’s business resources and services, to help businesses at every...

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Two new Business Roundtable groups kicked off in May.  22 business leaders from the region will be meeting monthly with peer business owners, lea...

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Business incubators are programs designed to accelerate the successful development of entrepreneurial companies through an array of business support resources and services, developed and orchestrated by incubator management and offered both in the incubator and through its network of contacts. Incubators vary in the way they deliver their services...

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