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Community Road to Recovery Survey

We want your views on the current economic recovery. Please take our 12-question survey to record your views. Results will be anonymous and will be used to develop economic recovery policies in the South. Take the survey by clicking on http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/road2recovery.


Ask the Experts

Southern Growth is pleased to introduce “Ask the Experts,” a new website feature in which a rotating panel of experts from around the region offers their views on an important economic development question. This month, we posed the following question on economic recovery to our panel:

Many smaller communities feel that there is little that they themselves can do to respond to current economic challenges. What is one thing that you think communities can do to improve their chances for economic success now and in the future?

Ask the ExpertsClick to see what our panel of experts had to say.

We also encourage you to start this conversation in your own community by using free materials that can be downloaded directly from Southern Growth’s website. In addition to generating ideas for action in your community, your community’s concerns, priorities and ideas will be shared with leaders from throughout the South as part of Southern Growth’s 2010 Report on the Future of the South. Details, including forum materials, are available at http://www.southerngrowth.com/forums/forums.html.


SAVE THE DATE!

Save the date for Southern Growth Policies Board's 2010 Chairman’s Conference on the promotion of the Southern automotive industry:  Driving the Next 20 Years—Creating the New Automotive Industry in the South. The conference, hosted by Governor Steve Beshear, will be held on June 7-8 in Lexington, Kentucky. The conference will highlight strategies for profiting from changes within the industry and ways to maximize the industry’s contribution to the South’s economy. 

For more information, contact Scott Doron, director of the Southern Technology Council.


News at Southern Growth

Teaming Up For Success
Teaming Up for Success is a Blog written by Carla Ledbetter fo the Washington Times. It features stories about people collaborating and working together to make good things happen. A recent entry, Southern Recipe for Community Success, features Southern Growth Policies Board's Community Forums. Read the article and learn more about how Southern Growth's forums help communities communicate and achieve success.

New Southern Growth Chairman to Focus on Auto Industry
November 23, 2009.Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear today announced he will be the new chairman of the Southern Growth Policies Board. Gov. Beshear becomes Southern Growth’s 40th Chair, succeeding Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi and follows a long line of distinguished Southern leaders, including Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. As chairman, Gov. Beshear will host the 2010 Chairman’s Conference in Lexington, Kentucky June 7th through 8th. The focus will be on highlighting and strengthening the automotive industry in the South. Read more here.

Follow Southern Growth on Twitter and LinkedIn
You can now keep up with Southern Growth and economic development issues relevant to the South through our Twitter page and LinkedIn group. On our Twitter page you’ll find updates on Southern Growth activities as well as pointers to new economic development reports, data and ideas. The LinkedIn Group allows our Southern Growth constituents to communicate with each other by posting their own events, reports, and ideas to the group profile. Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/SGPB. Join the LinkedIn Group at http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2507791&trk=hb_side_g.

The Road to Recovery: 2009-2010 Forum Materials and Guidelines Now Available
November 3 , 2009. Each year, Southern Growth Policies Board starts a conversation in the South on a particular issue related to economic development. We do this by holding community forums, or moderated discussions, in communities large and small across the region. In 2009, more than 2,300 Southerners participated in community forums, state policy dialogues and an online survey to share their thoughts and opinions on how communities could best take advantage of the economic opportunities associated with energy. Read more about this year's Community Forum topic of economic recovery and join us in organizing a forum in your community!


 

 

ORNL Hosting 4th Annual Global Venture Challenge

ORNL News – January 7, 2010

Oak Ridge National Laboratory invites universities to apply to compete in the fourth annual Global Venture Challenge to be held March 24-26. Global Venture Challenge 2010 is a unique educational event that brings together graduate student teams from across the country and around the world to present entrepreneurial ideas and to compete for significant cash prizes. The event also attracts venture investors and industry experts from across the country to serve as competition judges, and provides the opportunity for all participants to learn more about the emerging energy-related research being conducted at ORNL.
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