THRIVE IN THE NEWS
Capital Growth For Thrive--Channel 3000 (Neil Heinen):
"For all of the promise, excitement and success generated in the last few years by Thrive, the Madison Region’s economic development organization, local businesses, start-ups, and entrepreneurs consistently face the same challenge -- access to capital. And while the recession has certainly made things more difficult, too often the biggest problem is identifying and then tapping into existing pools of available capital. To its credit, Thrive has recognized the need and has stepped up with a new initiative to serve as a bridge to bring public and private sources of capital together to support appropriate business opportunities with the potential for sustainable economic growth." Read the whole editorial here.
Spectrum Brands is moving its headquarters back to Madison--Thrive EVP Sean Robbins touches on what that means for the region. Read the article here.
Find the latest Thrive blog entry on the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center on PatentlyBIO, the official blog site for BIO 2010. Thrive will again be part of the Wisconsin Pavilion, promoting our region's biotech assets with regional partners Alliant Energy, MGE, and the cities of Fitchburg, Madison and Middleton. BIO is being hosted this year in Chicago May 3-6. Learn more about how Thrive is promoting the Madison Region here.
The City of Sun Prairie is coordinating a research effort for a wind industry prospect about the local supply chain and appropriate engineering/R&D support in the Thrive (Madison) Region, the Milwaukee 7 Region, and the New North Region (Fox Valley). This prospect is actively seeking to identify companies with skills and support capabilities in the area of Power Electronics, Electromagnetics (Machine Design), and Reliability & Thermal Analysis. Survey responses from this prospect information have been forwarded to the prospect. The City is leaving the survey deadline open at this time to allow for other potentially interested companies to participate. Any companies within these regions with skills and services in the areas mentioned above should contact Neil Stechschulte, (608) 825-0894. The Voices of Rural Wisconsin project is a new partnership between Portal Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. Working together, these two statewide nonprofit organizations hope to share the stories, thoughts, and histories of Wisconsin's rural population in their own words. Some of the collected voices will appear in print article form in the pages of Wisconsin People & Ideas, the quarterly magazine of the Wisconsin Academy, while others will be organized into searchable, thematic categories for the Portal Wisconsin audio archive. The unique combination of print and audio allows for deeper and wider exploration of the themes important to our rural citizens: rural land use, health care, production agriculture, environmental stewardship, and much more. The first in the four-part series of Voices of Rural Wisconsin articles appears in the spring 2010 issue of Wisconsin People & Ideas, and the project audio archive can be explored at Portal Wisconsin beginning April 16, 2010.
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EVENTS
May 12: Portage Area Chamber of Commerce Business Luncheon. Speaker: Todd Berry, Wisconsin Taxpayer's Alliance. Bud's Pizza, 1505 New Pinery Rd, Portage Lunch at 11:30AM, speaker at noon. Cost: $8.00
May 19, 9AM-3PM: Local Food Delivers: Which Distributor is Right for You? IFM 4th Annual Meeting. Alliant Energy Center, Madison. Information on local Wisconsin sourcing for large volume buyers and local growers.
June 14-18: Youth Entrepreneur camp. $275 (includes lunch and all materials/supplies), scholarships available.
May 24-25, St. Louis. Join the City of Madison and regional representatives at the Ag Innovation Showcase, a leading global conference convening top corporate, entrepreneurial, and investment leaders in agriculture.
Save the Date: August 11-13, Mexico Dairy Conference. DATCP invites companies interested in exporting to Mexico to participate. For more information contact Jen Pino-Gallagher, 608-224-5125.
THRIVE: BOARD
Deb Archer, Jon Bales, John Biondi, Dave Boyer, Ed Clarke, Kristen Cogswell, Debbie Crave, Mark Cullen, Michael Decker, Carl Gulbrandsen, Tera Johnson, Sangtae Kim, Paul Peercy, Terri Potter, Kim Schaefer, Tom Spitz, Larry Swalheim, Trevor Twose, Bill White, Gary Wolter (Chair).
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