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 Research has shown the critical importance of cultural and creative assets in building quality places and attracting talented knowledge workers....

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 COMMITTEE UPDATE:  In May 2010, the public members of the Regional Mission Strategy Team asked that the committee refocus its efforts to sm...

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Web Portal - One major initiative the team is focused on is providing a robust and centralized online location of resources to serve entrepreneurs.
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 The team has been working with two DeWitt High School teachers on their DeWitt Creativity Group project in which they offer an environment and r...

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 2009 was the inaugural year for Next Bright Idea, our idea competition that was created to foster and reward innovation and creativity and foste...

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  A month-long series of events and educational programs to ignite our creative culture, support aspiring entrepreneurs and catalyze new ve...

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 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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Working with neighboring municipalities in the core urban area of Greater Lansing, members of the Placemaking and First Impressions Action Teams have ...

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The team has worked closely with Junior Achievement in an effort to expand the reach of JA of Mid-Michigan. As part of the charge, the team has promis...

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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 team has been working on developing a plan for an initiative called “Taking Pride in Greater Lansing”  in which community members identify pl...

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Throughout the year, the team has been working on a plan to implement the use of this brand to regional partners in the form of a “toolkit” to create ...

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The CTA program is led by the Greater Lansing Convention and Visitors Bureau, and the First Impressions team participated in the very first training p...

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For the second year, we have brought back the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour for college students. The program is designed to inspire students about th...

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 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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 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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 As our team focused on expanding regional services that are supportive of entrepreneurship and focused on innovation, we have developed “5 on 5 ...

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Earlier this year, the group identified that there are 2500 new businesses that have started in the Greater Lansing region in the past 5 years, in 300...

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

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This initiative is focused improving engagement with current and incoming students with the Greater Lansing community, and introducing them to the ass...

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 View the Cultural Economic Development Plan in its entirety.

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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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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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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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