Prosperity Alliance Workshop

The Regional Economic Prosperity Alliance and NEMCOG are sponsoring an educational workshop:

"Building Personal & Family Wealth in Changing Times"

from 10 am to 4 pm on Friday, September 10, 2010 at Thunder Bay Resort: Pinecone Quarters. 

The featured speaker for the workshop is Catherine Austin Fitts, President of Solari, Inc.  Catherine offers a unique perspective on the gobal financial system and the political economy.  she was a Managing Director and member of the Board of Dillon Read & Co., Inc., a Wall Street Investment Bank.  Also, she served as Assistant Secretary of Housing -- Federal Housing Commission in the first Bush Administration.  She was President of the Hamilton Securities Group, a Washington, D.C. investment bank.  She has closed over $25 billion on transactions and investments and guided investment strategy for over $300 billion of assets.

The workshop is designed to provide hope for local sustainable prosperity during these difficult times.

The workshop costs $10 (payable to the Michigan Association of Planning (MAP)).  To register for this workshop, please send payment and your contact information to MAP at

Michigan Association of Planning

219 S. Main Street, Ste. 300

Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Or, you may call 734-913-2000, FAX: 734-913-2061; or email: showard@planningmi.org

Please register as soon as possible.  Confirmations will be sent via email.

I suggest you consider attending this very interesting and potentially valuable workshop! 

   

Properity Alliance

The Northeast Michigan Council of Governments (NEMCOG) has been working with People and Land (PAL) to create a local coalition to solve our economic problems. PAL believes in Six Pillars for Prosperity that I believe make sense for Michigan and, especially for our region:

1) Attractive Cities

2) Highly competitive schools and life-long learning

3) Knowledge-based technology

4) Thriving agriculture

5) Natural resources for recreation and job creation

6) Inclusive and entrepreneurial culture

Simply put, the goal of these six pillars is to make our region and state more economically successful over the long term. I think we all agree this is a worthy goal.

In the next few days, I'll try to expand on each one of these pillars, and invite you to get involved. NEMCOG, PAL, and the Prosperity Alliance are non-partisan organizations.

To learn more, copy and paste on your web browser: http:www.pal@peopleandland.org