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.
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?
Click
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 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.
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!
