“In these challenging times we must rely on creative partnerships to stretch limited resources. Mobilize Maine will focus on an asset-based and regional-based economic development strategy that will enable our distinctive regions to be proactive and to prepare and execute their own comprehensive development activities.”
- John E. Baldacci, Governor of Maine
Through regional partnership and collaboration, Mobilize Maine is an initiative to adopt forward-thinking economic development practices for the purpose of steering Maine’s reliance on traditional manufacturing and commodity-based industries toward a more sustainable, knowledge-based economy that can be competitive on a global stage.
The core principles behind Mobilize Maine include:
- Establishing long-term strategies for growth that will span successive state administrations, and be sustained by a broad mass of local, private, public and non-profit sector leaders and citizen volunteers.
- Initiating a ground-up approach whereby citizens in each region will identify strengths and assets that will be the foundation of the new economy.
- Identifying regional priorities that will become the basis for private, public and philanthropic investment in each economic region.
- Preserving and sustaining Maine’s unique Quality of Place, while growing good paying jobs and businesses.
- Focusing on measurable outcomes with firm timeframes, benchmarks and assigned responsibilities for getting things done.
The state-wide program is coordinated and facilitated by Maine’s six Economic Development Districts in cooperation with the State of Maine and the program’s collaborative investors.
For more information on the Mobilize Maine program visit: http://www.nmdc.org/Development/mobilize_maine.html
