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Northern California WIRED Region Fostering entrepreneurship “Survivor style” Modeled on a popular reality television show, Venture Island \| Chico provides a field of innovative, start-up and early-stage growth companies in the Northern California WIRED region a chance to compete for executive mentoring and advice, not to mention visibility and a cash prize. Adapting a well-known model, this initiative helps foster entrepreneurship, which in turn will create jobs in the WIRED region. more...

Alabama - Mississippi MyBiz.am Upgrade Unveiled NEW ORLEANS -- WAEM WIRED unveiled its upgraded and updated MyBiz.am website Thursday at Workforce Innovations 2008. “Asked by the U.S. Department of Labor to demonstrate our innovative MyBiz web tool at Innovations, we decided this would be a great time to unveil our many improvements,”...more
Montana Cementing WIRED Partnership at State Level To recognize and cement the collaborative relationship between Montana State agencies involved in the WIRED Montana Agro–Energy Plan, the Governor of Montana issued an executive order on February 15, 2007 establishing the WIRED–Montana’s Agro–Energy Plan – Agency Cooperation Agreement... more
Southern Arizona Strong Leadership makes Regional Vision more Clear A strong leadership group leads Innovation Frontier Arizona. Key individuals from economic development and industry, local workforce systems, all of the region's community colleges and universities and several of its largest school districts from communities and counties all along the southern Arizona border with Mexico have signed up... more
Coastal Maine Making the Connections between Partners To make the connections between different service providers, Maine’s North Star Alliance has created a network for service providers to share information, leads and contacts. The network also meets on a monthly basis to provide questions and answer sessions for cross-resource training... more
Tennessee Valley Tennessee Valley WIRED region formalizes its partnership with Junior Achievement In June 2007, the Tennessee Valley WIRED region formalized its partnership with Junior Achievement, a non-profit organization which seeks to educate youth about entrepreneurship, work readiness, and financial literacy through experiential, hands-on programs... more
A New Kind of Workforce Model Drives a New Kind of Education At first glance, the scene at Rochester's New Tech High looks like a typical American classroom. But something is different. There are no rows of desks facing forward. No glazed-eyed students sitting behind them stifling yawns. There is no teacher at the front of the classroom droning on at the chalkboard... Read More

WIRED Helps Piedmont Triad Take Off These have been hard times for the Piedmont Triad, the twelve county region nestled between North Carolina’s more robust economic centers of Raleigh-Durham and Charlotte. Between 2000 and 2004 the Triad experienced a net loss of more than 40,000 “insured jobs,” i.e., jobs covered by unemployment insurance, as the region’s once mighty apparel, textile and furniture industries all suffered the effects of increased global competition. In some areas, a full fifty percent of the students in the local schools were eligible for free or reduced lunches... Read More

A Perfect Ten: The Entrepreneurs Network – Finger Lakes NY When it comes to starting a new business what does everybody need? CAPITOL! In the Finger Lakes region of New York, the WIRED regional grantee has come up with a unique way to capitalize on their entrepreneurs, The Entrepreneurs Network (TEN) provides an environment of learning and networking for senior management level entrepreneurs based on high tech focused, product-based, early stage (pre-institutional funding) companies... Read More

Can you hear me/see me now? Appalachian Ohio gets connected. The Appalachian Ohio region spans 29 counties in a rural economically depressed region covering nearly 300 miles. The sparse population and distances present major challenges to bringing the region together in coordinated efforts. WIRED is breaking this distance down through the creation of a regional online collaboration space where leaders investigate, model and implement cutting edge collaboration tools. Read More