Brewed Fresh Daily

Selling St. Louis to New Yorkers Does Cleveland+ do this?

Young workers get job boost Minnesota is a leading state in summer youth work programs; who is Cuyahoga County is seeing this opportunity…or, will we be sending kids out to paint fire hydrants again?

Morton Marcus: Prerequisites for Economic Development Marcus is a good commentator of developments in Indiana;

Work Ready an asset in tough economic times More states are looking at work readiness certificates; Georgia has been a leader;

Creating An Economy Based on New Energy Requires Broad-Based Collaboration A view from Pittsburgh…More on Pittsburgh Green Innovators here.

East Lansing mulls tying economic development funds to green building practices

Workforce strengthens partnerships with employers to give job seekers boost The Hispanic Workforce hosted an open house to strengthen relationships with corporate partners in Northeast Ohio.

The American Brain Drain and Asia Dumb immigration policies impose a cost on US competitiveness

Medical Mart backers see furniture first — but something greater down the line “When you try to picture what Cleveland’s Medical Mart will look like — at least at first — think of a Medical Furniture Mart.” Sounds really exciting.

Allegheny Conference chief aims for growth

After nine months of work, Indiana’s Energy Systems Network went public last week. An entire team of people were working on this initiative, including my colleagues and me from Purdue.

The network is working on a pipeline of Clean Tech projects. The first two:

The Hoosier Heavy Hybrid Partnership to develop hybrid trucks and buses; and

Project Plug‐IN to integrate electric vehicles and ‘smart grid’ technologies.

Open innovation networks enable participants to align resources quickly around emerging market opportunities.

You can learn more about our network here.

• I Rock Cleveland: Record Store Day in Cleveland Will be Massive With Music Saves

• Worldchanging: Bright Green: Postopolis, Day 1
• WomensEnews.org: Citizen Blogging Boosts Zimon into Local Politics
• Youngstown Renaissance: Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 threatens community agriculture
• Cleveland mayor and some council members return pay raises – Metro – cleveland.com
  What's next? Pay cuts? Is this how the budget gets balanced?
• Northeast Shores News: April Showers bring …
  Rain barrels!
• MB Matthews: Street Smarts: Max Hayes Blows Glass.
• The Fail Whale « MonkeyWorks Illustration
• Vytauras Sasnauskas Chef V: camera update
  My foodie friends will dig the pic on this post.
• Homeward Bound | Unquiet Desperation
  Click thru and see why Chris Miller and family are coming back to CLE from LA
• Health e: Coffee Keeps Exercise Pain In Check

For the past three days in Kansas City, over 400 workforce development professionals from all over the Midwest have been meeting. The challenge: Use the influx of Recovery Act funds to improve the performance of the public workforce system.

This morning, we completed a Strategic Doing work session with about 200 professionals. (The others were involved with designing youth summer programs that will launch in a couple of months.)

Strategic Doing is a discipline for thinking and acting strategically in open networks. (It replaces strategic planning, which is more appropriate for hierarchical organizations.)

The most successful states in today’s session: Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Indiana and Minnesota. From the looks of it, Ohio has a ways to go to be up with the Midwest leaders.

• Barbecue and Bourbon Tour 2009
  A couple of my foodie friends are drivin' south sampling bbq & bevvies as they go.
• I remember – Mrs. Flinger: Memoirs
  I remember too.
• Petite Planet: The Toy Society: Changing the World One Surprise at a Time
  If I start making plush toys, I'll be doing this too.
• Downtown Cleveland Examiner: Resident meeting focuses on downtown Cleveland safety
  By blogger Jeremy Borger
• My Future Past: Male coming-of-age ritual
• Citizen.com: Study: Land trusts lead to lower foreclosure rates
  "Homeowners in community land trusts are much less likely to lose their homes to foreclosure than owners of market-rate homes, according to a survey released by the National CLT Network and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. "

• Poverty Goes Straight to the Brain | Wired Science from Wired.com
  "Growing up poor isn't merely hard on kids. It might also be bad for their brains. A long-term study of cognitive development in lower- and middle-class students found strong links between childhood poverty, physiological stress and adult memory."

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• WOMMA: Thirsty Plants Tweet for Water
• Above 110th Street: Street Scapes
  The City of East Cleveland and University Circle in Cleveland are neighbors, and share excellent university and health care and transportation options among many other things.
• clevelandsgs.com » Cleveland Impact Program
  Awesome collection of period graphics.
• The Greenhouse Tavern » One Step Closer
  Awesome pic of the interior if you click over.
• JumpStart: IdeaExchange Blog » Not Sure How or Why to Use Social Media?
• Inner Sanctum » Devo sends a shoutout to Akron from SXSW
• USTelecom Blog » Broadband Stimulus Update Video
• MediaShift Idea Lab . How Many Homegrown News Stories Are in Your Daily Paper? | PBS
• Where the Wild Things Are… « MonkeyWorks Illustration
• CEOs for Cities :: Time for Cities to Come Out of Dark Ages
• Donation Usability: Increasing Online Giving to Non-Profits and Charities (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
• i will shout youngstown: trends in science and engineering R&D at YSU and Northeast Ohio
• RADIO HANNIBAL: The Wrecking Crew, The Musicians Who Formed The Soundtrack Of The 60's
  What you missed @ CIFF
• TwitPwr: 27 Twitter Applications Your Small Business Can Use Today
  Via Optiem's Adam Wilkens

Roy Church gets it. Colleges and universities are becoming the driver of regional economic development.

“Ensuring Ohio’s higher education system as not only a partner, but a driver of Ohio’s economic transformation is critical,” Church said. “Economic development happens … by attracting new companies, nurturing existing companies and growing your own companies.

Lorain County Community College’s Innovation Fund gives $125K to local companies