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Vision

Mission

Strategies

Success Indicators

Primary Activities

County Role

Partners

Milestones

 

 

ONE

• MIDTOWN VIRTUAL TOUR INITATIVE

 

 

• TEAM

CIA, David Moss, MFA student

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TWO

• MIDTOWN FUNDING NETWORK INITIATIVE - develop alternate and diverse funding sources for entrepreneurial initiatives in Midtown. Connect with existing resources and develop new ones, ie., the Empowerment Zone, social VC regional leaders

 

• TEAM

Betsey Merkel

Julia Zellner

Mark Nead

Susan Altshuler

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THREE

• MIDTOWN MY TOWN STORE

Develop promotional collateral

 

• TEAM

Jakprints

Mark Nead

Jeff Friedman

 

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FOUR

• CASE STUDIES AND TESTIMONIALS INITIATIVE

Research stories and develop case studies

 

• TEAM

Betsey Merkel

 

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FIVE

• CASH CARD INITIATIVE

Develop a cash card for use to encourage commerce in Midtown; resembles a AAA or Rewards card

 

• TEAM

Matt

Mark and Mark Nead

Dennis Coughlin

 

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SIX

• GAMING INITIATIVE

Leaders to be contacted: M De'Aholia, Lev Gonick, D Moss, MidTown Develop Corp., Tom Nosek, CIA, Case: Mark Buchner

 

 

• TEAM

Mark Nead

Jeff Friedman

Pete Rice

 

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SEVEN

• GREEN ISSUES INITIATIVE

Contact Rose, Melvin Hendrix

 

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EIGHT

• STUDENT INTERNSHIP NETWORK INITIATIVE

 

• TEAM

Susan Altshuler

Alex Michaels

Emma Foxall

Tiffany Swann

Kristin Rafferty

 

• NEXT STEPS

Emma to put together list of High School guidance directors

 

 

 

• ACTION STEPS

Create separate network list of student interns and Midtown businesses

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• NINE

RESOURCES AND CAPABILTIES

Myers Business Directory

Live - Work -Play

MidTown Dev. Corp

 

 

• TEAM

Dennis Coughlin

 

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Conversational Notes from the Meeting:

 

RESEARCH

Identify research strengths at colleges and universities and connect to business needs:

CSU

Google

Levine College

 

Set up a meeting with Raj – with a group of Midtown people to meet with Raj to develop student interns and research - Betsey

 

Look at messaging the Midtown mentality

 

Get all the Development corporations together to share information - Dennis

 

FUNDING NETWORKS

A forum

Nead and Julia to build a business plan

Matt Rossman: take some time to call the list and update

Student internship opportunity

Rich Brhel will come next week to talk about the Midtown Business Directory

 

STUDENT INTERNSHIPS

 

Three week time line, take kids under 18, a requirement for HS graduation, strengthen SAT requirements; Jrs looking to turn in info in December Mentor, Shaker Hts, and XXX

 

Who do you contact at HS: the Unit Principal or the Guidance Department

Emma found Prelude2Cinema on the web and through the web

 

Cleveland Internship website designed by Thunder::tech

 

Tiffany Swann, Kristin Rafferty working on building a student internship model

 

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY

Identify and isolate projects

Build teams

Business plans

 

Jakprints

 

CIA Integrated Media

Fly through to look at a hydro project

Google earth supplies above view and then telescoping down to one location

Midtown City architecture

 

(Strategic Technology Alliance) STA is looking for nonprofits to connect to

What can UCI do to assist in the building of Innovation Zone in Midtown?

Link:

 

Confirm a meeting with CIA and FUTURE

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ATTENDEES

 

M Nead, Nead Brand Partners

M Zust, Nead Brand Partners

Dennis Coughlin, I-Open

Diane Dunleavy, MidTown Dev Corp

Susan Schaul, Marketing

Matt Salmon, National City Bank

Alex Michaels, Prelude 2 Cinema

Julia Zellner, Grants and Funding

Peter Rice, Webtego

Judith Majher

Jeff Friedman, Webtego

Bob Sopko, STA

Tom Horn, CIA

Eric Johnson, Upbeat Cleveland

Emma Foxall, High School Student Mentor