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Left to Right:
Nate
Green,
Executive
Director P3, Steven Gary, Pres. The Savings Bank,
Larry Thornhill,
Pres. & CEO Berger Health Systems, and Tim
Colburn, VP
Finance
Berger Health
Systems. |
Pickaway Progress
Partnership (P3), Pickaway County’s
(Ohio) primary business
recruitment, retention and expansion, and
marketing arm, hosted its First
Annual Appreciation Reception January
16th. During the event, Nate
Green, Pickaway Progress Partnership’s
Executive Director, announced
that the Partnership has obtained
commitments totaling $1,283,750
from the public and private sectors for
its 2007-2011 budget
cycle. Exceeding the minimum 5- year funding
target of $1.25
million.
“The
response from
the community has been
unbelievable, everywhere I go people are talking
about P3 and the changes going
on here in Pickaway County,” said Tim
Colburn, VP Finance of Berger
Health Systems, who chairs the Partnership
Board. “I want to thank our
Community Leadership and Resource
Development Group for their
efforts.”
Pickaway
Progress
Partnership previously was a
county funded Community Improvement
Corporation that had lied dormant
for a number of years. Green was
hired in July, 2005 as part of an
effort to revamp and revitalize the
CIC to
enhance the counties ability to attract and grow
industry.
Resource Development Group
(RDG) was charged with positioning the
organization to be pro-active and
progressive in the quest for new
business opportunities.
RDG, with P3, held a half day Alignment Session
to help focus P3’s new
agenda. RDG also worked with P3’s marketing
committee to develop a new Brand
and Logo, all of which was essential to
the new face and new direction of
the Partnership.
The purpose
of the
campaign was to increase public
and private sector investment in
Pickaway Progress
Partnership. This new funding, combined with
existing
dollars, will allow Pickaway
Progress Partnership to increase its
marketing budget, expand on its
existing business retention and
expansion programs, and more
effectively recruit new businesses into
Pickaway County.
“Pickaway
Progress
Partnership had a very successful
PR and fund raising campaign and that
has lead to a successful year for
Nate Green,” stated Steve Gary,
President of The Savings Bank and
campaign Co-Chair. “I believe our
campaign results are a testament
to the fact that we are beginning to
attract a lot of positive attention
from the community and the Central
Ohio region in general.”
Pickaway Progress
Partnership’s mission is to serve as
the catalyst to create a positive
business environment that
promotes new investment, job growth, and job
retention for this Central Ohio
County of 45,000. “I feel this new
found excitement and funding will
allow us to do just what our mission
states,” said Green, adding “The
next five years should prove to be very
exciting for P3 and Pickaway
County!” |
