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Each year, Southern Growth Policies Board honors Southern initiatives that are improving economic opportunities and quality of life in the region. The 2010 Innovator Award winners were chosen from creative initiatives in the region that aim to help communities recover from the recession. Southern
Growth Policies Board presented the awards to each of the state award winners below at the Chairman's Conference that was held in Lexington, Kentucky, on June 7-8, 2010.
- TechConnect WV - West Virginia University, West Virginia - June 1, 2010
- Boosting Educational Opportunity – Scholarships and Loan Forgiveness - Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission, Virginia - May 25, 2010
- Tennessee Three-Star Program and TNCPE, Tennessee - May 18, 2010
- NEXT Innovation Center, South Carolina - May 11, 2010
- Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth (CCEW) - University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma - May 4, 2010
- Latino Community Credit Union (LCCU), North Carolina - April 27, 2010
- Rural Place Building – The Montgomery Institute, Mississippi - April 20, 2010
- Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) - Northwest Missouri State University, Missouri - April 13, 2010
- Featherbone Communiversity, Georgia - April 6, 2010
- IDEAcorps, Louisiana - March 30, 2010
- EntrePaducah®, Kentucky - March 23, 2010
- Fayetteville Forward, Arkansas - March 16, 2010
- DesignSeed – Auburn University, Alabama - March 9, 2010
For more information on Southern Growth’s Innovator Awards program or Chairman’s Conference, contact Ted Abernathy, Executive Director, Southern Growth Policies Board, at (919) 941-5145 or tabernathy@southern.org. |