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Spurring minority firms: Milwaukee in line for entrepreneurship initiative
The Business Journal of Milwaukee - January 7, 2005 by Phill Trewyn
Milwaukee is a possible site for a new national program aiming to initiate minority business ownership in urban areas.
The Urban Entrepreneur Partnership is led by the National Urban League and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a Kansas City, Mo., nonprofit organization that supports entrepreneurial endeavors.
The partnership is launching centers in five cities this year -- Atlanta, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Jacksonville, Fla. and Kansas City, Mo. -- and hopes to expand to more cities in 2006, Milwaukee being a possible location, said Marc Morial, president and chief executive officer of the National Urban League, New York.
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The goal: A strong regional economy
If the seven-county economic bloc that includes Milwaukee were an independent country, its $63 billion economy would approach that of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates in the Persian Gulf.
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The Regional Campaign for Economic Development
In order to impact the pace and quality of economic development in the region, we must have both a strategy for creating a more vibrant business climate as well as dynamic new strategies to facilitate the growth of new regional income. The following business plan outlines the strategies we will engage to support economic growth and identifies key objectives that will measure our progress. Ultimately, we believe this sustained effort will result in an improved set of economic measures of the region's prosperity.