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August’s Spotlight is on Matthew Marshall, Economic Development Administrator, Minnkota Power Cooperative

Wednesday, August 04, 2021

Who can believe it’s August already? We hope you’re enjoying the ongoing Olympic coverage while getting in a few last minute summer vacations! For those who enjoy our newsletters each month, we apologize as we took July off. But, we are back at it here in August and we can’t wait to introduce you to our North Dakota board member, Matthew Marshall. Matthew has been involved with Mid-America EDC for nearly 10 years. He brings extensive experience to the Mid-America board as he’s had careers in economic development at a local level, marketing executive, and now he helps lead a regional powe...

June’s Board Member Spotlight is on Erin Sparks, Economic Development Lead, Great River Energy

Tuesday, June 01, 2021

Greetings Mid America EDC Members! Summer has arrived! And with that so has construction season. We hope that you are experiencing some great economic development projects breaking ground in your respective communities. Stay tuned for upcoming free Webinars – there are some good ones in the works! And mark your calendars for December 1 – 3, 2021 yes the Mid-America EDC Competitive Conference is happening! In-person, in Chicago! Stay tuned for more information as we confirm up the agenda. This month we get to know Erin Sparks, Economic Development Lead at Great River Energy in Minnesota. Reach out to he...

May’s Board Member Spotlight is on Dean Dziedzic, Vice President of Economic Development, Sioux Falls Development Foundation

Saturday, May 01, 2021

Greetings Mid America EDC Members! We hope that you were able to join us for our Virtual Best Practices Conference last week. If you want to re-visit any of the sessions, you can do so via the Whova Website - https://whova.com/portal/webapp/mebpc_202105/Agenda Our current Mid America EDC Board President, Dean Dziedzic welcomed us at the conference. Outside of leading Mid America EDC, he’s a pretty busy economic developer in Sioux Falls, SD. We hope you enjoy getting to know Dean and hearing about his experiences. Q.1 Tell us about yourself! How long have you been on the Mid-America EDC board? I have serve...

April’s Board Member Spotlight is on Valerie Christofferson, Director, Business Customer Growth and Sustainability at Consumers Energy

Thursday, April 01, 2021

Greetings Mid America EDC Members! Spring is always an exciting time for new construction projects taking off. We hope that you are experiencing some great economic development projects breaking ground in your respective communities. A quick reminder that our upcoming Best Practices Conference will be virtual (May 12-13). If you haven’t had the opportunity to register yet, you can do that at the following link- https://www.midamericaedc.org/events-and-programs/best-practices-conference As many of you know, we were originally planning to have the Best Practices Conference in Flint, MI. So since we won’t be in person, we wanted to bring a little bit of Michigan to you vi...