…[T]he Community Foundation’s Frederick County Business Roundtable for Education Fund will help to support FCBRE’s activities and major goals which include student internships, teacher externships, mentoring and tutoring for students, as well as teacher training and staff development, among other proposed initiatives.

“This multi-pronged approach to addressing workforce needs has proven successful in other places across the country,” Markoe said. “With the tremendous growth of Frederick County and the current assessment that future workforce needs must include education in specific areas, The Frederick County Business Roundtable for Education Fund is essential in helping to get the ball rolling toward addressing those needs.”

New Frederick County Business Roundtable for Education Fund Opens at Community Foundation

Teachers to train outside classrooms: Schools partner with businesses to create unique summer learning opportunity

Learn more: National Institute for Excellence in Teaching

A May 28 executive forum sponsored by the economic development groups MAGNET and BioEnterprise will focus on area manufacturers that diversified to participate in the growing biomedical industry.

Manufacturing for the Medical Market will be held from 3:30 to 6 p.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn Conference Center, 1100 Carnegie Ave., Cleveland. Cost is $25. Register at 216-432-5159 or send an e-mail to katharine.boone@magnetwork.org.

Medical market is topic of forum

For 25 years, the Akron Global Business Accelerator has been a rather quiet force for economic development in Northeast Ohio.

But the national spotlight found it on Tuesday.

The facility won the 2008 Incubator Innovation Award from the National Business Incubation Association at the organization’s annual conference in San Antonio, Texas.

Akron incubator captures national award

Case receives $2.4M gift to strengthen Management as Design

See the opportunities by browsing through Business Week’s Innovation and Design section.

What is the status on the Design District initiative?

I’m down in Louisiana today working with an inspiring group that is rebuilding community in the toughest neighborhoods in Shreveport.

They have adopted an Open Source Economic Development model and are partnering with I-Open. Some remarkable stories to tell.

Community Renewal

This open source approach also follows some insightful work by Steve Goldsmith, former mayor of Indianapolis. Goldsmith’s book, Governing by Networks, provides a good backdrop. Read more.

He recently spoke to a group of us on the importance of networks to government. You can listen to his remarks here.

One key point: You cannot solve horizontal problems with vertical solutions.

The Akron Global Business Accelerator, celebrating its silver anniversary this month, is a national role model.

It is one of two finalists for the National Business Incubation Association’s 2008 Incubator Innovation Award, the winner of which will be announced at a conference on Tuesday.

Akron Global Business Accelerator, a national role model and a key to driving local development, is 1 of 2 finalists for innovation award