CREC News

• CREC promotes Mark White, Ph.D., to Training and Technical Assistance Programs manager on November 1; will manage new US EDA training implementation grant as part of his duties
  
  
• CREC hires new Cost of Living Project manager, Dean Frutiger, to work with Data Products program, started November 5
  
  
• Erol Yildirim takes over as Director of Data Products; will manage new product development activities for C2ER
  
  
• CREC President Ken Poole briefs Fairfax County Economic Development Authority staff on recent Northern Virginia BRAC impact study, October 29
  

• CREC President Featured in articles published in the Milwaukee Sentinel-Journal and Racine Times Journal, October 11, 2007
  
  
• CREC teams with PAROS Group to help develop Racine County Workforce Development Strategy, Kick-off Meeting with 100 Community Leaders, October 10, 2007
  
  
• Ken Poole, CREC President, Keynotes Oklahoma Governor’s Council for Workforce and Economic Development, October 2, 2007
  
  
• CREC staff helps Ohio compare its incentives policies to other states under contract with TechSolve, Inc.
  
  
• US Economic Development Administration announces 3-year training delivery grant to the Council for Community and Economic Research; CREC staff to provide support in delivering “how-to” training on data-driven regional strategic planning
  
  
• Racine (WI) Workforce Development Board announces contract with CREC and PAROS Group, September 10, 2007
  
  
• US NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership renews 5-year contract with State Science and Technology Institute and CREC, August 15, 2007
  
  
• CREC to help 3 North Carolina Workforce Development Boards in developing collaborative partnership with regional economic development group under new NC Dept of Commerce grant, August 1, 2007