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Economic Development
The Blueprint Green Bay Pitch Day
In early October, the Greater Green Bay Chamber through the Urban Hub, partnered with local educator Denise McFarlin and Solid Foundation Learning, Inc., to host the 2021 Children’s Business Fair of Greater Green Bay. The event’s goal was to teach the future entrepreneurs of Greater Green Bay the values of entrepreneurship by creating a product of their own and a one-day platform to sell it. The event also empowered kids to practice their sales pitch, answer questions and receive feedback from shoppers and— of course — the thrill of receiving dollars for all their hard work!
In August, the Greater Green Bay Chamber, through the Urban Hub, kicked off a first-of-itskind, 12-week business accelerator program called The Blueprint Green Bay, a program focused on minority-,women-and veteran-owned startups and entrepreneurs. The program is broken up into two parts: An idea validation cohort in the fall and a market validation cohort in the spring.
A culmination of the first idea validation cohort’s work will be on display on Thursday, Nov. 4, from 6- 8 p.m. during the Pitch Night, where each company will pitch to sponsors, investors and the community for the opportunity to receive funding. Applications for the first market validation cohort will open on Monday, Jan. 3, 2022.
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The Greater Green Bay Chamber through the Startup Hub has announced that Startup Week Wisconsin – Green Bay, presented by LiveX, will be hosted across Greater Green Bay the week of November 15 - 19, 2021.
The Greater Green Bay Chamber’s much anticipated, community-wide “Driving Growth” Economic Development Strategic Plan update event is set for Thursday, Nov. 11, from 7 - 9 a.m. at the Radisson Hotel & Conference Center in Green Bay.
Adopted in May 2017, the Economic Development Strategic Plan was built around an ambitious set of 11 initiatives designed to support the creation of new jobs and investments in the area. The plan also included the formation of seven task forces in the areas of business development, talent, downtown, innovation and entrepreneurship, alignment and conferences, diversity and inclusiveness and transportation and infrastructure.
Since its creation, each task force — made up of business and community leaders in Greater Green Bay — has met regularly to guide and execute the plan’s implementation as well as meeting with TIP Strategies in 2020 for a plan update.
We encourage anyone in the community interested in learning about the growth of Greater Green Bay to join us!
Registration is available online at events.greatergbc.org/. The week will feature a range of engaging events aimed at helping individuals and companies that make up Northeast Wisconsin’s growing startup and entrepreneurial ecosystem create meaningful connections, spur collaborations and learn from some of the best business leaders the state has to offer.
This marks the third year that Greater Green Bay has participated in a statewide Startup Week, with last year’s events completed fully virtual. This year, virtual events will still be incorporated while some events will return to in-person; a new component—live streaming—will be available through the event’s presenting partner LiveX, a live broadcast and streaming services company located in Downtown Green Bay’s Rail Yard Innovation District.
The week’s events will include a Tech Bash, Audible pitch event, Tech Connect (a reverse pitch event) and more. For complete registration details, including dates and times of Startup Week Wisconsin events – which span 10 cities statewide – visit www.startupweekwi.org/.
Manifattura italiana a Green Bay
Did you know that Italy is the second largest source of foreign direct investment in the Greater Green Bay region? If you didn’t, you are not alone. The many prominent Italian companies located in our area, coupled with our paper industry concentration at more than 14-times the national average, allows Greater Green Bay to be a dominate force in the paper industry. Some of the Italian companies located in Greater Green Bay include:
In the next issue of Collective Impact, learn about our peer city Lucca, Italy. Lucca is known as the ‘Paper Valley’ of Europe and is also home to the headquarters of our Italian paper companies.
In addition to the Greater Green Bay region, other prominent Italian companies are located throughout the state of Wisconsin as well. Some of these companies located in the Badger State include:
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