Business Retention | Expansion The BRE&W team made 15 company visits in March and helped provide them with workforce insights, Foreign Trade Zone information, and connections in the community. Companies reported an addition of 70 jobs in the last month, with 39 planned for the future. We also took part in the TMCC Employer Appreciation [...]
Business Retention | Expansion | Workforce Development In January, the team visited 7 existing companies, assisted 3 of the 7, and made two business to business connections. They also assisted a local company with an expansion, adding 10 positions and investing over $2.5M in new capital. The team participated in a visit from business [...]
CEO Update Thanks to all that attended the EDAWN, The Reno-Sparks Chamber of Commerce and theRSCVA Alliance event: A Regional Business Expo & Economic Update on January 25th. The event focused on educating educating the community on the partnership and combined efforts of these organizations to move our economy in a positive direction. Governor Sandoval [...]
Business Retention | Expansion | Workforce Last chance to join us for our annual economic update as part of the Alliance event - A Regional Business Expo & Economic Forum - January 25th. Register here. Things did not slow down in the month of December, and despite the holidays, the BREW team was able to make [...]
Business Retention | Expansion | Workforce November was a busy month for the BREWD team. The team assisted with an expansion for a local business that will be adding 15 new jobs in the next two years and will be investing over $20M in new equipment. They also met with six additional companies providing [...]
CEO Happy Holidays! Another year has come and gone, and it is exciting to see the progress we've made as a team! As you know, we can't do this alone. Our success would not happen without the continued support of our investors and community partners. On behalf of the EDAWN Board of Trustees and [...]
Business Retention | Expansion | Workforce Development October was a busy month for the BREWD team with the Existing Industry Awards and the trip to Austin, Texas to spread the word about engineering employment opportunities in the region, at the Society of Women Engineers Conference. Thank you to the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa which [...]
Business Retention | Expansion | Workforce The Business Retention and Expansion team made 7 company visits in September.. and provided assistance to 2 companies. In September, we also launched two taxi tops promoting Nevada JobConnect, to help publicize the fact that JobConnect is the place to go for those seeking employment, in addition to businesses [...]
CEO How did EDAWN do in our fiscal year 2017? The EDAWN Board tracks our progress using a dashboard that details metrics in a few main areas, job attraction, job retention, entrepreneurial job creation and workforce development. This dashboard is aligned with our strategic plan and our funding. The EDAWN team had another great [...]
Business Retention | Expansion | Workforce The team made 11 visits in August and seven of those companies are growing. Two are new companies to the area. We referred two companies to internship programs and made eight connections between business and education. EDAWN continues to remind companies about the benefits of hiring interns at [...]