Driving Regional Prosperity

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• Driving Regional Prosperity
• Workforce Innovations in Regional Economic
  Development (WIRED) Grant Recipient
• Advanced Manufacturing Learning Community

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Who we are

• Were the Michigan mitt
• 2M people live or work in our 13-county region
  (Clinton, Ingham, Eaton, Bay, Midland, Saginaw,
  Genesee, Shiawassee, Livingston, Lapeer, Tuscola,
  Sanilac, Huron)
• Mid Michigan is a non-traditional region
• True economic transformation will take longer
  than the 3-year WIRED Grant
• We face common challenges

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Role of Prima Civitas Foundation (PCF)David
Hollister, President Dennis Sykes,
Executive Director

• At MSUs 150th anniversary celebration, President
  Simon proclaimed a new era of the Land Grant
  university, created Prima Civitas Foundation
• PCF chosen to manage the strategic impact of the
  MMIT to ensure that it results in significant,
  long-term, systemic change.
• Recruitment of key stakeholder groups
• Leverage resources to ensure long-term
  sustainability

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MMIT Partners

• Center for Automotive Research
• Chambers of Commerce
• Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
• Corporation for a Skilled Workforce
• Department of Labor and Economic Growth
• Economic Development Agencies
• Greater Flint Healthcare Coalition
• Intermediate School Districts/Regional
  Educational Service Agencies
• Kettering University
• Lansing Community College
• Lansing Economic Area Partnership (LEAP)
• Michigan Association of Counties
• Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center
• Michigan Regional Skills Alliances
• Michigan State University
• Michigan Works! Agencies  
• Mott Community College
• Prima Civitas Foundation 
• Saginaw Valley State University

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MMIT Board Membership

• Paul Hunt
• Michigan State University
• George Puia
• Saginaw Valley State University
• Scott Walker
• Midland Tomorrow
• Kathy Conklin
• Saginaw County Business and Education
• Partnership
• Tom Crampton
• Mott Community College
• Fred Dillingham
• Livingston Economic Development Council

• Norma Hagenow
• Genesys Health System
• Stan Kogut
• Ingham Intermediate School District
• Ed Donovan
• Genesee Regional Chamber
• Marv Pichla
• Thumb Area Michigan Works!
• Doug Stites
• Capital Area Michigan Works!
• Karen Bantel
• Michigan Entrepreneurship Education
  Network
• Jack Litzenberg (ex officio)

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MMITs three primary goals

• Innovation Reinventing our industrial base
• Talent developing talent through learning
• Collaboration maximizing assets

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Learning Communities

• Health Care
• Norma Hagenow
• Entrepreneurship
• Karen Bantel
• Advanced Manufacturing
• Kathy Conklin
• Funded by the C. S. Mott Foundation

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Learning Communitys Purpose

• Collaborate with existing groups and efforts
• Support and form partnerships at the regional
  level
• Share resources and information
• Share and adopt promising practices

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Advanced Manufacturing Learning Community Partners

• Council of Labor Economic Growth
• Center for Automotive Research
• Michigan Department of Labor Economic Growth
• Michigan Works!
• Community Colleges
• State Local Manufacturing Organizations
• Regional Skills Alliances
• Economic Development Organizations
• Others

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Activities

• Learning Community meetings
• Task Team meetings
• National Career Readiness Certificate
• Marketing Image
• Advanced Manufacturing Blue Ribbon Council

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Questions? Please contact

• Kathy Conklin
• Advanced Manufacturing Learning Community
  Champion
• Saginaw County Business Education Partnership
• Tel [phone] ext.4317
• Email kconlin_at_wright-k.com
• Web ww.midmichiganlearningcommunities.pbwiki.com