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Latest round of Clean Ohio funding is available The Ohio Department of Development is making $17 million available in the latest round of funding to help clean up and improve brownfields. Individual grants of up to $3 million are available to buy property, demolish old buildings, conduct environmental cleanup, and improve infrastructure for brownfield properties. Counties, townships, municipalities, port authorities and park or conservancy districts are eligible to apply to the Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund, a $200 million program approved by Ohio voters in 2000. A recent Hamilton County example of the funding at work is in the Village of Lockland where two Clean Ohio grants secured by Hamilton County Development Co., the Village of Lockland, and the Port of Greater Cincinnati Development Authority have helped improve a former manufacturing site. The deadline to apply for the latest round of funding is August 25. An additional $17 million is slated for the next round (Round 6), with applications due in January. American Screenwriters Association will relocate to Cincinnati The American Screenwriters Association will make Cincinnati its new center of operations, relocating from Los Angeles. The ASA is a nonprofit association with more than 40,000 members in 42 countries. It plans to locate to an office in Mt. Auburn, where it will launch several new programs and be a community resource. One major event that will be held here is its annual international screenwriters conference, where writers learn the craft of screenwriting and how to market their TV and film scripts to producers. The group said New York City, Indianapolis, Nashville and Chicago were also in the running for the relocation, but said Cincinnati was chosen because of its economic and cultural diversity, support of the arts, accessibility and affordability. Hamilton County employers makes top entry-level hiring list Several Hamilton County employers are among the top 500 entry-level employers for 2008, according to a recent survey by CollegeGrad.com. They include General Electric, which projects a need for 1,500 entry-level workers in 2008; Johnson & Johnson (1,100), Procter & Gamble (750), Macy's (670) and Convergys (140). The Top Entry Level Employers list was generated by a survey in which respondents provided entry level, master's, and intern hiring projections for 2008. Ohio expects job growth in ‘green-collar’ industries Ohio has the potential to revitalize its economy with "green collar" jobs in the advanced energy industry, a new report finds. The state's skilled labor force, which is adaptable to green manufacturing jobs, is the chief reason the state has the capacity to expand in the advanced energy arena. More than 550,000 workers in Ohio could see new job opportunities and pay increases from the growth of environmentally friendly industries, according to the report. The findings come from the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, which examined 12 states and their capacity to work in the green industries of building retrofitting, mass transit, fuel efficient cars, wind power, solar power and biomass fuels. Ohio’s a national leader in venture funding for bioscience companies Ohio is the leading state between the coasts and one of the top five in the nation for health care venture capital firms, according to a new analysis by BioEnterprise. Twenty-seven venture firms with health care as a focus have Ohio offices, the report finds. Ohio’s $1.6 billion Third Frontier technology investment program was credited for the ranking. In 2007, Ohio bioscience companies attracted $296 million in venture investments, leading all states between the coasts, the group said. |
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