Dakotafire Get your spark here.
This question was asked at the September regional roundtable of northeast economic developers. Here are some of their answers.
If you’d like to answer it as well, go to www.pie4.us.
- Volunteer with Junior Achievement
- BIG Idea Competition
- Youth on advisory board to get their perspectives
- Youth on board of community foundation
- Visit with elementary schools about entrepreneurship, resumes and job interviews
- Job fair
- Panel with human resources people with local businesses
- English as a Second Language classes for kids (as well as college students and workers) from other countries
- Give graduates $10 gas cards with a Dr. Seuss poem and a note that says, “Here is money for your first tank of gas to get you back home” as an invitation to come back
- Student interns
- Have an event to get input from local students on community design project
- Middle school tours of industrial park
- No more “boring” meetings—bonfires, cookouts, etc., instead to recruit more and different people
