130 days ago by alexabboud

The food economy is going through a transition; some would call it a revolution. The term revolution pops up a lot, from celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s food revolution (bringing healthy food back to working class communities), to the innovative, fast-growing company Revolution Foods, which brings hea ...

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130 days ago by alexabboud

They’re closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain’t coming back - Bruce Springsteen, My Hometown Industrial jobs are not dead. Certainly, many have been lost – shipped overseas, lost to the great recession, or eliminated due to autom ...

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130 days ago by alexabboud

Michael Porter, founder of the ICIC, kicked off today’s schedule with a talk about cluster-based economic development, and how these strategies can spur economic and job growth in inner cities. Inner Cities have particular characteristics, and strategies for economic development need to reflect this ...

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131 days ago by alexabboud

“This is Just What You Do in Chicago” James Glerum, a board member of the Civic Consulting Alliance, said this early in the session called “Corporate Community Engagement in Chicago: Commitment and Results”, which talked about private sector contribution, and cross-sector collaboration in addressing ...

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131 days ago by alexabboud

The first panel session was titled ‘Community-Based Capital for Small Business Financing’. In the introduction, moderator Matt Reilein of JP Morgan Chase noted that an ICIC study found that 70% of inner-city businesses are undercapitalized, which provided excellent context for the discussion that fo ...

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