Foundation Newsletter September 2006
Rosemarie Greco meets with the Team PA Foundation Investors
DEP Secretary Kathleen McGinty meeting with Foundation investors at our last Investor's Exchange.


Join us in thanking our newest investor, Allegheny Energy Inc.




Special thanks to our investors...
who make possible our work of improving Pennsylvania's competitiveness and quality of life:

Accuweather, Inc.
Allegheny Energy, Inc.
ASK Foods, Inc.
Bradford Energy Company
Brenner Motors, Inc.
Clarion University
Custom Group Industries
Department of Community & Economic Development
Duquesne Light Company
Egan Bloom & Associates
EMBARQ
First Energy Corporation
Gannett Fleming, Inc.
Glatfelter Insurance Group
Greenlee Partners
Herbert Rowland & Grubic Inc.
Hershey Entertainment & Resorts Company
Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield
High Industries, Inc.
Keystone Nazareth Bank & Trust
KPMG
Logistical Transportation Services
McNees Wallace & Nurick, LLC
Mericle Development Corp.
Metropolitan Regional Council of Carpenters
Milestone Partners
Pennoni Associates
Pepper Hamilton LLP
Perform Group, LLC
Pittsburgh Tech. Council
The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc
PPL Corporation
Sanofi Pasteur
Sony Technology Center - Pittsburgh
SuperUser Technologies, Inc.
Verizon
Winner International Corporation

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The Investor's Exchange is a series of meetings where our partners have the opportunity to have candid discussion with some of the most influential leaders in the Commonwealth. For more information or to join the investor's group, contact us.

To read why Secretary McGinty thanked the Foundation for its recent initiatives, click here.

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Governor Rendell receives award from IEDC
Team PA receives an award from CoreNet Global
Governor Rendell receiving a leadership award from the International Economic Development Council (IEDC) in recognition of his economic development efforts over the last decade.

The New Face of Business:
Pennsylvania's Business Diversity Portal Launched!


A screenshot of our recently released business diversity website.

PA's Energy Leadership continues to get noticed
How PA is getting recognized across the world, and how that may lead to industry and employment growth at home.

Sprechen Sie Deutsch?
Pennsylvania enhances its international presence by partnering with Germany on alternative energy Issues.

Building our Competitiveness
Team PA Foundation's Global Competitiveness Initiative has great impacts on economic development in the Commonwealth.

Ambassador Regional Events Announced
Each year, Ambassadors from across Commonwealth create local programming which serves to inform, connect and develop Ambassadors, legislators, and other local economic developers.  

Business Opportunities from Abroad
The Commonwealth's Office of International Business Development has provided us with business lead opportunities discovered by PA's international representatives.  

Foundation Briefs
QUICK NEWS & POINTS OF INTEREST

After thirty years with Pepper Hamilton, Team PA Foundation Board member Jim Murray will be leaving the firm and the practice of law on October 1 to begin a new career as the President of The O'Neill Companies, a holding company of which the real estate development company, O'Neill Properties Group, is the principal component.

Steve Kohler - Team PA Ambassador and former director of the Governor's Action Team has been named to lead the new "Space Florida" state agency by Governor Jeb Bush...the Meadville native recently has been CEO of Winner Global Defense LLC based in Sharon, PA. Kohler's job will be to help entice space industry jobs to the Sunshine State just as NASA has moved to cut thousands of Kennedy Space Center Jobs.

Carnegie Mellon University is listed as one of the 25 "New Ivies" according to the Kaplan/Newsweek How to Get Into College Guide now in bookstores. The Pittsburgh school has earned a national reputation as the "most tech savvy" and the "hottest school for getting a job" and its record entices three times as many applicants as it admits each year. The new guide gives the school high marks for engineering, technical, drama programs and its "entrepreneurial spirit." The book's editor also credits Pittsburgh's city environment for bringing a boost in the school's rankings.




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