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Looking ahead, Downtown Raleigh’s vision for the future must be grounded in our partnerships and relationships we build with one another 🤝 Our new Economic Development Strategy outlines opportunities to grow partnerships and create fresh strategies to bridge missing or underused connections in the community. How? 📌 Work with local partners to bring even more life science companies to downtown, further bolstering this industry and local innovation (ex. Linking NCSU’s Centennial Campus and downtown as complementary innovation centers) 📌 Develop a specialized ecosystem for Minority-and Women-Owned Businesses that provides more financial support, more space for testing/pop-ups, and more internship opportunities 📌 Broaden the overall business brand and appeal of Downtown Raleigh as a home to the highest concentration of creative and design-based firms in Wake County/the Triangle Learn more about the Economic Development Strategy 👇 https://bit.ly/3MVU0WX

Colin has already made a big contribution in working to redesign the webpage! Also, if you want to learn more about The Six Types of Working Genius by Patrick Lencioni, and how it can improve productivity and reduce burnout, let me know. I'd be happy to work with individuals or teams. #workinggenius

🌟 Showcase Your Star Interns! 🌟 Investing in the future of Nebraska starts with celebrating the incredible talent within your company. We invite you to participate in our Student Story highlight and shine a spotlight on your amazing interns! Why Participate? 🌟 Showcase Talent: Highlight the skills and contributions of your interns, demonstrating their vital role in your success. 🚀 Boost Your Brand: Promote your company culture and work environment, attracting top talent and impressing potential clients. 💡 Inspire and Engage: Present your company as an exciting, innovative workplace, setting your business apart. 🔗 Connect with the Next Generation: Build early relationships with students, strengthening your talent pipeline. What We Need: - A student photo - Social media handles - A message from the student - A video (optional but highly recommended) Celebrate your interns and elevate your company's profile. Submit your star interns today here: https://vist.ly/36xq7 !

I recently joined a Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal (MSPBJ) 𝘿𝙀𝙄 𝙐𝙥𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙚 panel where we dived into the complexities and pressing issues within diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work. I was honored to join Dirk DeYoung, our moderator, and fellow panelists Ka Vang, MS, Anne Doepner, Cecilia Stanton Adams, and DAVID EDGERTON JR (DEJ) as we shared perspectives on navigating these rapidly evolving dynamics. The Business Journal has summarized key highlights from our discussion in an article (link in comments) 📖. For many of us in this space we're holding and navigating a lot: - The evolving DEI landscape - Risk of litigation weighing heavily on strategic decision-making As I shared during the panel, leading in DEI today feels deeply personal, touching on aspects of identity and community that are central to who I am. At The BrandLab, these shifts have required us to be agile—especially in our summer internship program, which has always prioritized BIPOC college students in line with our mission. Now, we’re adapting by emphasizing a commitment to underrepresented communities within our application process. Check out the article below 👇🏽 for more insights from our conversation. These are important topics—let’s continue to share strategies and keep this work moving forward. #NonProfitLeadership #DEI #Leadership #Diversityandinclusion

Critical to have the one on one partner mentor and associate liason. A firm with a real interest in the summer student will have 20 minutes with the partner every day and at least a one hour session every week. Every summer student interested in business law should be on two deal teams at all times. Show you care.

Our interns had a chance to ask a group of CHS leaders some questions at our headquarters in Inver Grove Heights, Minn., in a recent panel event. Mary Kaul-Hottinger, Gary Halvorson, Rick Dusek, and Brandon Smith met with summer interns, both in-person and virtually. The discussion covered a variety of topics including: setting career goals, receiving feedback, culture and employee retention and more. "Always be willing to change. Look at the possibilities. Have agility and adaptability. That's the future; things change fast." - Kaul-Hottinger "At a company like ours, you can start in one place and follow a passion to other places that might feed a curiosity or help with your professional development... Challenge yourself and chase your passions. It's all fuel for a career." - Halvorson "Try different experiences to help you figure out what you like and if the company is where you'd want to grow your career. Always be learning and meeting people." - Dusek "There's always cycles in business, good and bad. Be known as a person that leans in, asking ‘How can I help?' People will remember those tough times and how you showed up as a leader to help." - Smith #CHSIncIntern

Sunday afternoon at the 2024 ICMA (International City/County Management Association) Annual Conference, I attended an education session entitled, "Building the Bench: Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Emerging Leaders for Large and Small Communities". The staffing, management, and leadership issues we face in Whitfield County are the same plaguing local governments across the United States. First, our workforce is older than those working in other employment sectors. Second, our most tenured employees are retiring and taking talent and institutional knowledge with them as they exit. Third, government employment is not as attractive as it used to be due to stagnant wages, declining benefits, and increasing stress. All of this makes it difficult and vital to fill our ranks replacing those retiring or leaving for greener pastures in the private sector. One solution is that used by baseball teams - developing talent through a farm system. For government that means creating a strong internship program designed to bring young, talented, altruistic people into our organizations and hopefully convince them to remain public servants throughout their careers.

Every time we conclude a semester of The Heritage Foundation's Young Leaders Program (YLP), I wonder where the weeks have gone. Countless policy briefings, First Principles lectures, skill development briefings, days of Capitol Hill training, shared meals, even salsa dances (thanks, Roger Severino), not to mention all the hard work on the job...it's hard to claim this isn't the best internship in the Nation's Capital. It's always a bitter-sweet day when it all ends, and we watch our next batch of torchbearers leave to take on the world. But they've been taking on the world for years, so we have nothing but optimism. America's future is forged here at Heritage, and, man, am I honored to be a part of it. These things don't just happen. Mary Catherine Machalec, your tireless, daily devotion to running this program is inspiring. I know and everyone knows: this isn't a job for you...this is a calling. Every day, you wake up feeling dangerous (thanks, Baker Mayfield); and you fight for all the best reasons. You fight to build humans who love humanity. Thank you. And what would YLP be without our Student Programs intern, Macy Gunnell? When pitching YLP to outside audiences, I regularly highlight that Heritage interns don't just fetch coffee and fill a headcount. They do real work. And their work is indispensable. That's why almost one-quarter of Heritage's staff is former interns. We put our money where our mouth is. Macy, you're the best of them, and these 50+ interns wouldn't have had the semester they did without you. I'm thrilled to see the places you go. "Society...becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born." -Edmund Burke.

Rural communities are the backbone of American society, if they are not prosperous we cannot achieve a country without inequality. With this investment in the UVM Leahy Institute for Rural Partnerships, the Ford Foundation hopes to empower Vermont’s rural communities with the tools they need for sustainable growth, while also providing UVM students with service-learning experiences that help cultivate the next generation of leaders.

As co-op programs gain popularity, these schools are seeing application numbers surge—students are recognizing the ROI these programs offer and the value of a direct bridge from college to career. In her latest blog post, Tina Brooks dives into the benefits of co-op programs, highlighting schools like Northeastern, Drexel, and Georgia Tech, where students can engage in high-level projects and make meaningful career strides before they even graduate. https://lnkd.in/epy-8GTh