2. Growing your Business- Growing your Community with Tools and Support Chrissy Bowers – Economic Development Administrator November 2015

3. Accelerate Idaho Advance Individuals Elevate Industry Strengthen Communities Employed, Empowered people Workforce Development Stuff the Talent Pipelines Diverse, Thriving Businesses Evangelize Idaho Assets Expand Start Ups & Grown Ups Site Readiness Community Support and Training Grants Rapid Response

4. Community and Industry Team Economic Development support team o Hank Ebert – Regions 1 & 2 o Jerry Miller – Regions 4 & 5 o Randy Shroll – Regions 3 & 6 Contacts for: Tools and Programs Community review/forum Needs assessments/help Meetings resource Support and conduit to Department of Commerce

5. Community Support Tools Data driving analysis -identify top needs Economic Development Partnerships Rapid Response Team Training Curriculum – on demand Gem State Prospector Ubiquitous

6. Marketing Help Website loaded with help, tools, data No need to create from scratch Links and support with all agencies and departments. Data, tools and fact based data. Ex: GSP

7. Gemstateprospector.com Profiles for Every City & County in Idaho Data Sets include…  Demographics  Workforce  Consumer Spending  Businesses

8. Gemstateprospector.com Variety of Properties Listed  Industrial  Commercial  Retail Free to List & Search Listings are Easy to Share  Hard copy (PDF and Word)  Email  Facebook

9. Commerce.Idaho.gov

10. Jeff Sayer- Director Megan Ronk- Chief Operations Officer Matt Borud- Chief Business Development Officer Chrissy Bowers- Chief Economic Development Officer Susie Davidson- Business Attraction Program Manager Dennis Porter – Industry Services Manager Jennifer Verdon- International Team Manager Diane Norton –Tourism Manager Ian Malipeai – National Sales Manager