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3 M I D -Y E A R R E P O R T 2 0 2 0 Greetings, It would be an understatement to report that the first six months of 2020 were anything but usual. We started 2020 coming off of a record New North Summit, followed by strong economic growth throughout the region. And then life changed. Our efforts quickly became focused on helping businesses, communities and our local partners weather the pandemic storm. We took multiple actions in response to the pandemic: • Worked with companies who could make personal protective equipment to meet the demand. • Launched an economic impact study with the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh to see how businesses were faring. • Created a statewide leadership series for CEOs and other top business leaders to share best practices. • Provided downtown businesses with resources as they looked to reopen. • Hosted weekly meetings with our local partners and industry leaders. • Helped businesses connect with available financial resources. • Created a local heroes video to thank our companies and communities for getting the region through these challenging times. Because of your investment in New North, we are positioned to lead the region's recovery efforts, while still executing on long-term, strategic initiatives for business and talent development. These entail leading reshoring business attraction efforts, identifying broadband deficiencies and marketing the resiliency of our communities. To this end, we are hard at work in the creation of our Talent Hub, which will help stakeholders navigate resources and initiatives to address the underserved, unemployed and talent attraction efforts. The NEW Launch Alliance will better connect and develop our entrepreneurial ecosystem. Our Business Intelligence platform will provide information for better data-driven decision making. This year's mid-year report looks a little different than in the past. You will see dashboards of some workforce and business indicators. By design, we wanted to reflect these in a time period before the pandemic. Our goal will be to collectively work with stakeholders to rebuild and measure our progress along the way. We know it's a new game. The rules have changed, but as one region, we are writing our new recovery playbook. We're 18 counties, one community, driven by compassion, determination and innovation. We will emerge as an even stronger united region! Respectfully, 2020 New North Board of Directors Tim Schneider,* Investors Community Bank (co-chair) Vicki Updike,* New Sage Strategies (co-chair) Michael Alexander, UW-Green Bay Becky Bartoszek, Fox Ci es Chamber Bill Bohn,* Associated Bank Fabio Bordignon, Fincan eri Brian Bruess, St. Norbert College Corey Brumbaugh, Miron Construc on Co., Inc. Joanie Buckley, Oneida Na on Angela Creel, Jewelers Mutual Bob DeKoch,* The Boldt Co. Coreen Dicus-Johnson, Network Health Tim Feldhausen, Davis & Keulthau Mary Goggans, Encapsys Chris Hess, Goodwill Andy Hetzel, NPS Corp. Bryan Hollenbach, Green Bay Packaging Jason Howe, Schneider John Kreul,* Amcor Erik Lampe, Oshkosh Corp. Andrew Leavi , UW-Oshkosh Maggie Lund, ThedaCare David Mar n, H.J. Mar n & Son Susan May,* Fox Valley Technical College** Lori Ney, Kimberly-Clark Corp. Doug Page, Performa Vern Peterson, Wisconsin Public Service Corp. Maureen Pistone, Wipfli Greg Sabel, C.D. Smith Michelle Schuler, Microso Mark Schwei, Consolidated Construc on Kathi Seifert,* Katapult, LLC Sco Teerlinck,** Werner Electric Supply David Thiel, Waupaca County EDC Catherine Tierney, Community First Credit Union Sheryl Van Gruensven,** UW-Green Bay Bill Woodward, von Briesen & Roper Ken Zacharias,* CLA Bob Zemple, Baker Tilly *Indicates service on the New North Execu ve Commi ee **Indicates term ended some me in 2020 2020 New North Team President & CEO Barb LaMue Senior Project Manager Connie Loden Execu ve Assistant/Office Manager Lorri LaPra Director, Marke ng & Investor Rela ons Lorissa R. Bañuelos Director, Research & Technology Ma hew Christman Crea ve Design, Produc on and Distribu on, Coalesce Marke ng & Design Public Rela ons & Media Management, Blumb Communica ons & Consul ng Director, NEW IT (Digital) Alliance Kim Iversen Playbook for Recovery