1. eci Super Region Presented by: Jean Anne Grunloh, ECIDC Executive Director October 30, 2013 Effingham, Illinois

2. Welcome Thank you for attending today’s Roundtable! Thank you to our event sponsors! » Each attendee should have received an informational packet eci Super Region

3. Thank You to:  ECIDC Board / Advisory Staff  Assoc. of IL Electric Cooperatives – tech support  Leaders with the six community college consortium  eci Super Region Committee Volunteers eci Super Region

4. Presentation Overview » Who is East Central Illinois Development Corporation (ECIDC) and the eci Super Region? » How/why did the eci Super Region form? » Accomplishments / future goals eci Super Region

7. How did the eci Super Region Coalition form? Spurred by national grant announcement of EDA – “Made in America Grant Challenge” ECIDC, as neutral facilitator, called a meeting of economic, community, business, and education professionals to discuss a potential application from our region – national perspective of east central Illinois. eci Super Region

8. How did the eci Super Region Coalition form? Key question: does our region have a common manufacturing industry to focus efforts? Answer: common need - Addressing manufacturing workforce skill needs eci Super Region

10. Resulting Collaboration Driven by Need to: Support our existing businesses by addressing critical and common manufacturing workforce needs Pool resources Become more competitive for national funding opportunities by large-scale collaboration Create effective public-private and business-education partnerships in communities throughout east central Illinois. eci Super Region

11. eci Super Region - Voluntary Coalition Includes: eci Super Region

12. Super Region committees include:  Executive Committee  K-16  Adult Training & Internships All - Focus on 1.Input from manufacturers – survey results 2.Raise community awareness 3.Build effective partnerships throughout region eci Super Region

13. eci Super Region Accomplishments:  Established an “information sharing” network - eNewsletter  Received 117 surveys from both manufacturers and Coalition partners  DOL-TAACCCT Grant application – eciCATCH program model  Media outreach by many Coalition partners to raise awareness for National Mfg. Day  Roundtable among many other networking events  Development of CatchYourCareer.com eci Super Region

14. CatchYourCareer.com Key purpose: user-friendly for students/potential employees Resources for students, educators, manufacturers, coalition  Online Directory of Training Programs  Industry Information/Outlook  Email newsletters to quickly distribute and share information – are you on our mailing list?  Tools to build business-education partnerships Future goals include an ePortfolio - establish a platform where employers can search for highly skilled workers. eci Super Region

17. Jean Anne Grunloh Executive Director East Central Illinois Development Corp. 1204 Network Center Effingham, IL 62401 217-540-3517 jgrunloh@lakeland.cc.il.us eci Super Region Information Available at: www.CatchYourCareer.comwww.CatchYourCareer.com or www.ecidc.comwww.ecidc.com eci Super Region