The Itasca Project, a volunteer-led business and civic group, is integrated into the Greater MSP, a regional economic development partnership of 300 companies and organizations.
“As we started collaborating more often, we began to think about whether we could work together to increase the influence of each entity and provide better service to the entire community,” said Itasca Project Chair. One of its founders, Lynn Casey, said.
The larger MSP actually came from the Itasca Project task force. This task force required costumes for maintaining and hiring businesses that function throughout cities and counties, which often compete with each other.
Itasca started in 2003 when a group of business leaders decided that a more subtle approach to community issues was needed. The group has addressed a variety of topics, including education and infrastructure needs, diversity initiatives, and economic inequality.
In the meantime, Greater MSP has evolved from a well-known recruiter that packages business development transactions to a regional data research institute with a workforce development and business expansion initiative.
After months of discussion, the Joint Task Force recommended the integration.
The merger will allow the Itasca Project to better expand and accelerate its work to develop citizen leaders and address long-term issues affecting the region’s economic competitiveness and quality of life, Padilla. Said Casey, a former chairman of a marketing and advertising company in Japan.
The name of the Itasca project will continue, and its work will be expanded thanks to “new connections with more leaders and organizations, and operational support available within the Greater MSP.”
Itasca was devised to work “behind the scenes,” said former McKinsey & Co, now a USBancorp executive. Said Tim Welsh, a consultant at.
In fact, Itasca volunteers have long used McKinsey’s free space for meetings and commissioned dedicated McKinsey staff to investigate and find consensus among business, government, and community stakeholders. The idea was to comprehensively study the problem and solution, including the local government and the Minnesota State Capitol, before introducing them for public debate and consideration.
Knowing that Minnesota’s growth is being driven through these populations, Itasca has focused on the need to equitably maximize the faster growing colored races, including immigrants. ..
Peter Frosch, CEO of Greater MSP, said:
Recent collaborations between the two groups include a regional economic indicator dashboard that tracks the progress of economic growth in the region of other companies in the same industry. The other is the business bridge. This helps connect large companies to small and medium-sized Minnesota companies that may be suppliers. According to Itasca, the project generated $ 10 billion in annual purchases.
ConnextMSP is another collaboration to help young Minneapolis-Cent color professionals. The Paul area connects with local employers.
According to Casey, Aitaska will soon publish a second report on labor shortages, including innovations and solutions. Frosch said the Greater MSP, early in 11-year history, did not consider housing. It is now an important element of economic development.
“Itasca is not a regular organization in that it is a volunteer-led, virtual organization,” said Casey. “We are talking about getting the most out of Itasca and getting what you need. [research] Infrastructure provided by Greater MSP. “
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