Thanks to our partnership with the bipartisan House Manufacturing Caucus, AMCC stakeholders briefed congressional staff on federal community designation programs like IMCP, DMCSP, BBB LEAP and the Tech Hubs program in the pending USICA-America Competes Act legislation. The briefing examined national trends in this space and included examples from several regional leaders to inform federal policy making; Debra Franklin from KS, Tulinda Larsen... Continue Reading →

On Monday, March 30, 2022 Michelle Burris with The Century Foundation presented to the AMCC Monday Morning Call Group about the DEI in Manufacturing. She first started by going over the problem, which consisted of the manufacturing industry having two million unfilled jobs by 2030, manufacturing being 67% white (non-Hispanic) and 70% male, along with... Continue Reading →

Sarah Lee with the State of Washington and Joshua Berger presented on the weekly Monday AMCC call on March 7, 2022, and they presented about the EDA ARPA Build Back Better Phase 1. She explained that EDA helped them obtain a grant that they are building. Joshua went over a PowerPoint presentation about how Maritime... Continue Reading →

Michelle Burris with The Century Foundation had a discussion of the Manufacturing Renaissance Campaign that they recently launched to the AMCC Monday morning call on February 7, 2022. Michelle touched on what will happen with the bill on if it is passed or not. The purpose of the councils is to use historically distressed communities... Continue Reading →

Andrew Stettner and Michelle Burris with The Century Foundation presented on the weekly Monday AMCC call about the State Small Business Credit Initiative and Creating Access to Capital on January 24, 2022. Michelle touched on the capital gaps for makers and manufactures while Andy touched on the parts of the solution to the SSBCI and... Continue Reading →

Tulinda Larsen with the Utah Advanced Materials & Manufacturing Initiative presented to the weekly Monday AMCC call on January 10, 2022 about the Utah EDA ARPA Build Back Better Phase 1. Utah's main vision is to ensure that Utah is a global leader in advanced materials and advanced manufacturing. Their mission is to promote collaboration,... Continue Reading →

Jen Worth with the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) and Craig McAtee with National Coalition of Advanced Technology presented during our weekly Monday calls on December 6, 2021. Jen explained how AACC is the membership organization for all community colleges across the country. During the pandemic, they saw a lot of innovation happen within... Continue Reading →

Tom Strong with the National Fund for Workforce Solutions presented to the AMCC Community on Monday November 15, 2021 about different job quality outcomes as well as multiple charts that go over employer outcomes compared to job characteristics. He touched on a job quality outcome map that has a turnover intention and one that has... Continue Reading →

On November 1st, 2021, Michelle Burris and Andrew Stettner from The Century Foundation presented the Importance of Linking Modern Urban Manufacturing with an Equity Agenda to the AMCC Community. Dr. Ron Williams and Tanu Kumar also presented about The Urban Manufacturing Alliance functions and the Phase 2 of the Cohort. For more information about this... Continue Reading →

Mark Troppe and Marty Romitti presented to the AMCC community on Monday, September 27, 2021 about Enhancing State-Local Economic Development Planning and Engagement. Mark explained their key outcomes which were what, why, and how and he also went in depth with how they planned to achieve those outcomes. Marty explained the national networks that CREC... Continue Reading →