Mr. Michael Kane

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  Michael Kane
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  Michael KaneManaging AssociateMt. Auburn Associates, Inc.
  
  Committed to making economic development visions a reality, Michael Kane has been a practitioner as well as researcher in the community and economic development field for more than 25 years.He specializes in regional economic development planning, sector analysis and organizing, and positioning higher educational institutions to better capitalize on their economic and workforce development assets.
  
  Since joining Mt. Auburn in 1992, Michael has led more than 20 strategic economic development planning efforts on the neighborhood, municipal, and regional levels, researching and analyzing more than a dozen economic sectors as part of that process.An authority in workforce development program evaluation, Michael has drawn on his expertise to develop workforce training programs for welfare recipients, underemployed, and incumbent workers with several community colleges.
  
  Michael played an integral role in developing Mt. Auburn's deep expertise in the Creative and Cultural Economy.Michael was a key architect of several recent reports and plans prepared by Mt. Auburn Associates, including: The Creative Economy Initiative: The Role of Arts and Culture in New England's Economic Competitiveness, The Creative Engine: How Arts & Culture is Fueling Economic Growth in New York City Neighborhoods, The Economic Role & Impact of Lincoln Center, Inc., and Louisiana: Where Culture Means Business.
  
  Prior to joining the firm, he worked for the Massachusetts Government Land, a quasi-public state agency that successfully used commercial and industrial development as a tool to revitalize small cities and neighborhoods in the state.Also, in the mid-1980s, he was the director of a regional economic development project that was one of the first efforts to use a sector organizing approach to building and strengthening a regional economy.Michael holds a Master of Education from Boston University.

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  Michael Kane, Managing Partner of Mt Auburn Associates, will conduct qualitative research on the creative sector in Tucson, meet with TREO leaders, review creative clusters analysis and contribute to white papers, TF protocols and Plan drafts throughout the process.

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  Michael Kane, Laurie Norton Moffatt, and Ellen Spear, Keynote Speakers
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  Michael Kane, Managing Partner of Mt. Auburn Associates, Ellen Spear, President of Hancock Shaker Village and Laurie Norton Moffatt, Director and CEO of the Norman Rockwell Museum will deliver the keynote address The Berkshire Creative Economy Project: Genesis, Approach, Findings, Strategies, and Lessons Learned.
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  Michael Kane, Managing Partner at Mt. Auburn Associates, has been a practitioner and researcher in economic development for more than twenty-five years.He directed a 5-year regional economic development project that was one of the first efforts to use a sector organizing approach to building and strengthening a regional economy.He has help prepare more than 20 strategic economic development plans on the neighborhood, municipal and regional levels, and researched and analyzed more than a dozen economic sectors.Mr. Kane has also evaluated workforce development programs, and he developed training programs for welfare recipients, the underemployed and incumbent workers.
  
  He worked on several arts and economic development reports prepared by Mt. Auburn Associates, including:

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  Michael Kane of Mount Auburn Associates in Northampton will submit a report to Mayor Charles V. Ryan no later than the first week in October, which will detail ways in which the arts can boost the downtown economy.

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  Participants: Keynote Speaker: H. Carl McCall, New York State Comptroller Moderator: Neil Scott Kleiman, Center for an Urban Future Panelists: Michael Lobdell, JP Morgan & New York City Investment Fund; Ed Ott, Central Labor Council; Michael Kane, Mt. Auburn Associates; Walter Stafford, New York University
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  First off, way down on the right is Michael Kane, who has been engaged in community an economic development for more than twenty five years.Initially working in Boston on community development, housing and tax issues.For the last fifteen years, Mr. Kane has worked both as a practitioner and as a consultant with Mt. Auburn Associates and has researched sectors in twenty states, including New York.He has also organized sectors, including plastics, metalworking, furniture, specialty foods and tourism.
  
  Next to Michael is Ed Ott.
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  So I will now start it off by bringing Michael Kane up here to respond.
  
  MICHAEL KANE: Thank you Neil.
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  MICHAEL KANE: I think that the screening criteria is something that's not rocket science.
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  And if they come with a small group of individuals, we try to help them broaden that group and once we realize there's an interest and again, as it has stated by Mr. Kane, there's no great science to finding the sectors.
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  MICHAEL KANE: I think the tax issue is a non-issue, I think.

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  Michael Kane - The Creative Economy.pdf (93kb): A summary of overall key issues from a focus group on the Creative Economy segments.
  
  RAND -- Gifts of the Muse: on the RAND Corporation website, Reframing the Debate About the Benefits of the Arts.
  
  RAND -- A New Framework for Building Participation in the Arts: on the RAND Corporation website

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  Michael Kane
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  Michael KaneManaging AssociateMt. Auburn Associates, Inc.
  
  Committed to making economic development visions a reality, Michael Kane has been a practitioner as well as researcher in the community and economic development field for more than 25 years.He specializes in regional economic development planning, sector analysis and organizing, and positioning higher educational institutions to better capitalize on their economic and workforce development assets.

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  Published on: 12/10/2004    Last Visited: 12/10/2004  

  Beth Siegel and Michael Kane of Mount Auburn Associates, a Massachusetts-based consulting firm that began conducting a cultural economy study for Louisiana in October, said their strategic plan should be complete by June.
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  Although Louisiana's and New Orleans' cultures have "brand recognition" internationally, Kane said, there is a lack of appreciation in the state and city for the importance of those cultural assets.
  
  Kane also said visitors to New Orleans need to know that when they come to the Crescent City, they are not experiencing everything culturally that Louisiana as a whole has to offer.
  
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