Team Pennsylvania Foundation

Eda statewide economic development planning grantusing funds from a federal eda statewide planning grant, team pennsylvania is focusing on the following three activities: leading, convening, and planning activities in energy, a critical industry sector that has been identified as benefiting from investment and planning; supporting the pennsylvania manufacturing advisory council and issuing a comprehensive playbook for manufacturing in the commonwealth; and conducting a literature review, equity audit, and gap analysis for pennsylvania's comprehensive economic development strategy (ceds).

Early learning investment commissionthe early learning investment commission (elic) was created by executive order 2008-08 to build a partnership between the public sector and business community on the value of public investment in early learning, focusing on practices that are educationally, economically and scientifically sound. Elic seeks to identify public-private strategies dedicated to supporting and advancing pennsylvania's early learning and economic development through selected projects.

Tourism and economic development programs in collaboration with dced, team pennsylvania manages several programs that promote tourism and economic development. Programs that support tourism include a creative production for a seasonal tourism campaign, a government-to-business campaign that includes a creative production focused on priority industries, and a site selector program that includes strategic sponsorships and metro missions. Programs that support economic development provide support for marketing, technical assistance, consulting engagements, collateral material development, trade shows and other activities.

International business supportteam pennsylvania supports dced's office of international business development (oibd) in their efforts to increase pennsylvania exports and secure foreign direct investment.

Accelerating technology adoption to enhance manufacturing competitivenessteam pa was awarded a grant of nearly $380,000 from the appalachian regional commission (arc) for its pennsylvania manufacturing competitiveness collaborative. The grant will be supplemented by state and private funding that will result in a total investment of $750,000 in this work, enabling the public-private network of partners to make manufacturing in the commonwealth more competitive.