Download your Data: DOE Edition
Redesign Your Data Last month I shared a suggestion that economic developers consider downloading key raw data sets that are used regularly to market their areas and by others to evaluate their areas. This month, in view of publicity...
A Place I’ll Remember – March 2025
A Place I'll Remember This month I’m highlighting Michigan’s newly announced Employer Assisted Housing Fund. The program has been allocated $10 million to be granted on a matching basis to employers who are willing to devise...
A New Workforce Target?
Uncategorized You’ve targeted College Students You’ve targeted Remote Workers You’ve targeted Military Veterans Are you ready for your next workforce target market? Public sector and not for profit employees...
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Redesign Your Data It’s always good practice to back up your data sources, but it’s easy to forget about it now that we are so used to having open source and paid information stored for us online. For economic developers, whether you...
A Place I’ll Remember – February 2025
A Place I'll Remember This time, I’ll remember Birmingham not because of a public sector workforce initiative, or even a public-private one. Moxi is a private company created by Cori Fain-Forrest offering childcare on demand. This unique...
Property Guardianship
Kate McEnroe On Demand One of the most recent entries into the Workforce Participation Resource Catalogue at Kate McEnroe On Demand is in the Housing Section. I’ve been reading recently about Property Guardianship programs in the UK....
The Distillery – A Book for You
The Distillery I can’t lie, I’ve mostly been reading what I call “airport fiction” lately – those series of novels that are the literary equivalent of Law and Order or CSI. But I did drop them for this book –...
A Place I’ll Remember – January 2025
A Place I'll Remember Global Detroit is not a new organization, but its mission and strategies are worth a look to any community that understands that attracting, integrating, and supporting immigrants will strengthen local economies and...