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Action Items

• Conduct training sessions for countywide economic development organizations that seek assistance in enhancing business recruitment processes. ECD staff will offer every countywide economic development organization that is interested training to enhance business recruitment processes based on national best practices. The economic development landscape is constantly changing, and ECD is well positioned to work with economic development professionals to make sure that marketing materials, RFP/RFI responses, and other aspects of their business recruitment efforts meet the standards of leading peer organizations elsewhere in the country. Organizations that seek ECD's assistance in enhancing their business development processes will attend customized training sessions conducted by Northern Middle Tennessee regional staff.
  
• Engage as needed with the Film, Entertainment, and Music Commission (FEMC) in its existing business outreach efforts to help industry employers expand or relocate to the region. Regional staff will accompany FEMC staff in meetings with existing entertainment companies as appropriate as well as share best practices in business outreach efforts with the commission on an as-needed basis. Regional staff will aim at supporting the FEMC efforts to gather information about the entertainment industry and identify possible expansion and relocation opportunities.
  
• Promote innovation in the Northern Middle Tennessee region's rural counties and distressed inner-city areas by leveraging relationships in these counties to promote programs offered by the Entrepreneur Center. Regional staff will ensure that ECD's efforts to boost innovation benefit start-ups across Northern Middle Tennessee by leveraging contacts in the region's rural counties and in distressed inner-city areas to market programs offered by the Entrepreneur Center. The staff's efforts will result in at least one entrepreneur from each of the region's rural counties and targeted inner-city areas participating in an Entrepreneur Center program.
  
• Assist the Nashville Technology Council's efforts to recruit technology workers. By gathering information from existing businesses on technology-related workforce needs and supporting other related initiatives focused on technology workers, ECD regional staff will help enable the Nashville Technology Council to conduct targeted technology-worker-recruitment activities. The council intends to make targeted recruitment efforts in at least two out-of-state markets in 2012.
  

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*The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development's mission is to develop strategies that help make Tennessee the number-one location in the Southeast for high quality jobs. The department seeks to attract new corporate investment in Tennessee and works with Tennessee companies to facilitate expansion and economic growth.

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Plans include supporting the Film, Entertainment, and Music Commission's outreach efforts regarding possible industry expansion and relocation opportunities.