Lansing Economic Area Partnership
LEAP Celebrates 8 New BAF Approvals and Statewide Recognition for High-Tech Clients LANSING, Mich. (Jun. 25, 2021) — Despite the pandemic, Greater Lansing’s entrepreneurial ecosystem continues to thrive in 2021, especially among the Lansing Economic Area Partnership’s (LEAP) high-tech clients served through Michigan’s Business Accelerator Fund...
Elder Care-Focused Startup Aims to Address Care Disparities Through Education and Evidence-Based Intervention LANSING, Mich. (June 22, 2021) — Seven talented local entrepreneurs pitched at the Lansing Economic Area Partnership’s (LEAP) June 10 virtual Hatching event, the quarterly pitch competition’s second event of 2021. June’s pitch lineup...
In April 2021, Ingham County took action to assist small businesses negatively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and allocated $11 million from the county’s first tranche of American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds to create the Ingham County Sunrise Small Business Grant Program. The county selected...
Grant Seeks to Strategically Align Regional Partners and Create Top MedTech Hub The Lansing Economic Area Partnership’s (LEAP) efforts to transform and connect a vital and growing regional industry cluster into one of the nation’s top 20 medical technology ecosystems is taking a significant step forward...
Kimberly Lavon is a graduate of LEAP's One and All class of March 2021, owner of Thimble Media and designer of the One and All program logo. Hola! My name is Kimberly Lavon and I’m 10 pounds of dynamite in a 5 pound bag. I am...
[caption id="attachment_5262" align="alignleft" width="300"] A state-of-the-art McKesson distribution facility like pictured, will open in Holt, MI late fall 2021. Photo courtesy of McKesson.[/caption] Today, the Lansing Economic Area Partnership (LEAP) and Delhi Charter Township board of trustees jointly announced global healthcare supply chain company McKesson is...
Lansing Recognized Among National Competitor Communities for Economic Development Excellence The Lansing Economic Area Partnership (LEAP) is recognized as one of the 20 top economic development organizations (EDO) in the nation, receiving the prestigious 2021 Site Selection Magazine Mac Conway Award designation earlier this week. LEAP...
Third One and All Program Continues to Accelerate Economic Mobility Across Clinton, Eaton, Ingham and Shiawassee Counties Nineteen entrepreneurs from across Clinton, Eaton, Ingham and Shiawassee counties will continue building or growing their businesses as part of the third program of One and All, an inclusive...
So far, my project has been full of up and downs. I started on a very broad subject, sustainability, which I quickly realized is far too broad and inconsistent to be a subject on its own. My initial research found that every company wants to attach...
By DJ Seaton This certainly has been quite a journey so far. I have finally finished up my work on the 2020 LEDC Annual Report. When working on that report, I discovered that I really need a bigger screen because I sometimes had 5+ windows open...
