First steps

FIRST STEPS
Advance Northeast Ohio initiatives to be launched in 2007:
Marketing campaign to promote the region to growing businesses, tourists and conventions.
Minority Business Accelerator to boost sales and employment at midsized to large minority-owned enterprises.
A Web site to showcase about 5,000 available jobs in the region's health care, technology and biosciences industries.
A fund-raising campaign to address the region's need for 375 million in capital for early-stage companies.
A Pathway Innovation Project to improve student transition from high school into higher education or the job market.
Source: Advance Northeast Ohio