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Left to Right: Bob DeVore,
Lowe
Destination Development, Michael Chiumento III,
Chiumento & Associates, PA, Bruce
Page, Jim Cullis, Landmar,
Art
Barr,
Devnet Services, Tom Cooley, Enterprise
Flagler, Robert
Radcliff, RDG Principal,
Clint
Nessmith, RDG Partner
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Enterprise Flagler,
Flagler County,
Florida’s
primary business development and
marketing arm, hosted its annual
Installation Dinner Thursday
evening. During the event,
Art Barr, Enterprise Flagler’s
outgoing board President, announced
that the economic development
entity has obtained commitments totaling
$1,170,335 from the private
sector for its 2007-2011 budget cycle. This
amount exceeds its minimum 5-
year funding goal of $1 million.
“The
response from the business community has been
tremendous,” said Tom
Cooley, Executive Director of
Enterprise Flagler. “I thank our terrific
campaign leadership and Resource
Development Group for their
efforts.”
The
purpose of the campaign was to increase private
sector investment in
Enterprise Flagler. This new
funding, combined with existing public
sector dollars, will allow Enterprise
Flagler to increase its marketing
budget, expand on its existing
business retention and expansion program,
and more effectively capitalize on
its partnership with the Cornerstone
regional economic development
effort, which is managed by the
Jacksonville Regional Chamber of
Commerce, another RDG client.
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Keynote Speaker, Robert J. Rohrlack,
Jr., CED.
Senior Vice
President of Business
Retention
& Recruitment at Enterprise
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“Enterprise Flagler has had a very busy
and successful year,” stated Art
Barr, Past President of Enterprise
Flagler and President of Devnet
Services. “I believe our
campaign results are a testament to the fact
that Enterprise Flagler’s efforts
are beginning to attract a lot of
positive attention from the
community.”
“Enterprise Flagler is currently involved in
numerous initiatives to
promote a diversified and healthy
economy,” said
Michael Chiumento III,
President
of the Enterprise Flagler Board,
Campaign Co-Chair, and Partner at
Chiumento & Associates,
PA. “The next five years should prove to be
very exciting for Flagler
County!”
Enterprise Flagler’s mission is to
enhance, promote, and develop the
industrial growth of Flagler County
by creating an atmosphere for
economic expansion through the
promotion and retention of existing
business, and by developing
programs to actively and aggressively
attract new industry and high
wage jobs to
Flagler
County.
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Resource Development Group is pleased to
be
able to play a small part in
supporting the International Economic
Development Council’s Diane Lupke
Scholarship Fund. The Lupke
Scholarship is an
educational fund created for economic development
professionals working in distressed
communities. It is designed to
provide these professionals the
same opportunity for continuing
education that others in the
industry have available.
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RDG sponsored a raffle
for two tickets to watch this
seasons #1 college football team, The Ohio
State Buckeyes, play the Indiana
Hoosiers in Columbus, Ohio. The
winner, Richard Nevins, Assistant
Director of the Mansfield (Texas)
Economic Development
Corporation, also won round trip airfare and two
nights hotel accommodations for
he and his wife, Kathy.
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IEDC
Raffle winner Kathy Nevins, RDG Partner
Curt Reph, and
raffle winner Richard Nevins prior to the
Ohio State
University football game on October 21st
with Indiana
University |
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Thanks
to the
generosity of all the economic
developers attending the IEDC conference
in New York City, $500 was raised
for the Lupke Scholarship Fund. RDG
matched the raffle proceeds and
made a contribution of $1,000 to help
support the scholarship fund’s
activities. Thanks to all who
participated and for your generous
support of IEDC. |
