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Global Massachusetts 2015 Receives Grant from The Boston Foundation

Boston, Massachusetts, June 22, 2006 – The Boston Foundation has awarded a $50,000 grant for support of Global Massachusetts 2015 to the Associated Industries of Massachusetts Foundation, Inc. Global Massachusetts 2015 is a two-year project being undertaken by Mass Insight, Associated Industries of Massachusetts (A.I.M.), and other partners to create a vision for economic success in key and emerging industry sectors over the next decade. The goal of the initiative is to build consensus on the agenda that will make Massachusetts a world leader in innovation, in order to retain and create good paying jobs statewide.

By organizing leadership in current and emerging industry sectors, Global Massachusetts 2015 will confront challenging issues and propose solutions in areas critical to developing, recruiting and retaining talented human capital in the state. These areas include:

• A talent and innovation strategy -- to link higher education and K-12 to talent, technology and innovation.
• A talent friendly environment – that addresses the cost of living and doing business, while investing in infrastructure, and to provide the innovative climate to recruit and retain talented human capital.
• Regional linkages – to connect Greater Boston’s economic engine to other regions in the state and New England.
• Global partnerships – to make the Commonwealth the senior partner in large-scale talent partnerships with China, India and other national and international innovation clusters.

“With input from business, public and private universities, and nonprofit and public leaders, we will work to establish an economic vision for 2015, and set benchmarks for success,” said William Guenther, President of Mass Insight Corporation, a public policy research organization.

Commenting on the project, Richard Lord, A.I.M.’s president & CEO said, “If we take the right steps to invest in and foster development of the state’s human capital, and continue to improve our cost structure, infrastructure and business climate, Massachusetts will be well positioned to compete in the national and international marketplace of the future.”

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The A.I.M. Foundation is an educational and economic research organization established in 1991 by Associated Industries of Massachusetts, the largest non-profit, nonpartisan employer association in the state, to develop in-depth, nonpartisan, fact based analysis of public policy issues. Since its creation, the Foundation has published numerous reports on energy, environmental and health care issues. Copies of the Foundation’s reports can be found on A.I.M.’s website, www.aimnet.org/foundation.

The Boston Foundation, one of the nation’s oldest and largest community foundations, has an endowment of close to $731 million. Last year, the Foundation made grants of more than $60 million to nonprofit organizations and received gifts of $73 million. The Boston Foundation is made up of 850 separate charitable funds, which have been established by donors either for the general benefit of the community or for special purposes. The Foundation also serves as a civic leader, convener, and sponsor of special initiatives designed to build community. More information about the Boston Foundation can be found at www.tbf.org.

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