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A Resource for Local Industry Issue: 23, October 2009 |
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Televised Town Hall to Address WNC Economy"North Carolina Rising" is a multi-media project spearheaded by UNC-TV that examines the challenges and opportunities facing rural regions in our state and how their successes affect all North Carolinians. For more than a year, UNC-TV has chronicled how rural North Carolina communities are transforming their economies and reinventing themselves through innovative options such as tourism, small business, alternative crops, biotechnology and biomanufacturing, food processing, military contracts and education. As part of this initiative, UNC-TV is providing opportunities for the public to participate in the ongoing discussion about our state's rural economy through a series of town hall meetings. One at Western Carolina University will be televised live on UNC-TV, Oct. 28, at 8 p.m. Moderated by UNC-TV's Shannon Vickery, the town hall meeting will feature a dialogue among expert panelists representing local leadership in education, policy and industry. Viewers will have an opportunity to learn more and join the statewide conversation about rural economic development. Topics for discussion will include tourism, casino expansion, advanced manufacturing and craft industries. The next "North Carolina Rising" town hall will take place in Catawba County on Nov. 4. Learn more. |
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Foothills Connect Executive Director Wins $100,000 Purpose PrizeTim Will, Executive Director for Foothills Connect, used his telecommunications background to connect his Appalachian county's agrarian past to a digital future. Bringing broadband to the rural area helped link local farmers to chefs in Charlotte through an online ordering system, bringing laid-off factory workers back to farming.
Click here for video profile of Tim Will.
This year's winners of The Purpose Prize, a $100,000 award for five social innovators in their encore careers, are using a new stage of life to do extraordinary things to improve life for millions of people worldwide.
These social entrepreneurs over 60 are using their experience and passion to take on society's biggest challenges. Now in its fourth year, the six-year, $17 million program is the nation's only large-scale investment in social innovators in the second half of life.
The winners and 49 Purpose Prize Fellows of 2009 will be honored at a Summit on Innovation on Oct. 31 – Nov. 1 at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business' Center on Social Innovation, one of the world's leading academic centers focused on social entrepreneurship.
The Purpose Prize is a program of the Encore Careers campaign (www.encore.org), which aims to engage millions of baby boomers in encore careers combining social impact, personal meaning and continued income in the second half of life. The goal: to produce a windfall of human talent to solve society's greatest problems, from education to the environment, health care to homelessness. |
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Industry Profile:
Doncaster / Tanner Companies |
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Founded in: 1931
President: Pell Tanner
Number of Employees: 108
Local Plant / Office Location: Rock Road, Rutherfordton
Parent Company: Tanner Companies is the parent company to Doncaster. Originally named the Doncaster Collar & Shirt Company.
Manufactures: Customer Service and Sales of Ladies Fine Apparel
Although much has changed in the world of fashion, Tanner's unyielding dedication to elegance and style continues to be the driving force behind its brands. The New York based design team develops four distinctive collections a year exclusively for Doncaster, using the very finest fabrics from around the world and drawing inspiration from both contemporary trends and timeless classics.
Other Plant Locations: Design Offices in New York City
Website: www.doncaster.com |
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The Economic Development Office is here to serve you as best we can. Please let us know if we can assist you in your own expansion possibilities, customer relocations, workforce data, etc. Thomas L. Johnson, CEcD, HLM Kerry Giles Mary Taylor Brenda Watson 142 E. Main Street, Suite 100 Forest City, NC 28043 828.248.1716 (w), 828.248.1771 (f)
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