MCED Launches Professionals-In-Residence (PiR) Program

August 6, 2009

PRESS RELEASE

CONTACT:
Steven Bazinet, President
228-8525
SBazinet@mced.biz

August 6, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MCED LAUNCHES PROFESSIONALS-IN-RESIDENCE (PiR)PROGRAM

(Portland, Maine) The Maine Center for Enterprise Development (MCED) has formed a cooperative partnership with Work it UP, a group of professionals who will be offering pro-bono counsel in marketing, finance, project management and other business functions to MCED clients. The relationship offers Work it UP members a greater opportunity to engage with a broader range of client prospects, and they in turn offer a tremendous benefit to MCED clients. Work it UP founders will reside in the business incubator located on the USM Portland campus and provide assistance to MCED incubator client businesses. MCED clients will have access to Work it UP project teams for specific project needs by using the capabilities of the Work it UP program members.

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ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Work it UP, www.workitup.org, is an innovative economic development and reemployment program that grew out of the Unemployed Professionals group at the Portland Career Center. The goal is to apply the skills, talents, knowledge and experience of the unemployed professional workforce to the project needs of Maine enterprises, so that client organizations become stronger, more competitive and ultimately create job opportunities – thereby keeping Maine talent employed in Maine. Work it UP maintains a skills assessment database of their participants and will coordinate project management, project leadership, skills development and teambuilding training. They are soliciting proposals for short-term projects from Maine businesses, municipalities and non-profit organizations. Work it UP is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation (application pending) founded in 2009 by David Craig, Stephen Buyze, Nina Dearborn, Patricia Davis, and Kenneth Zimmerman. The staff of Work it UP can be reached via information@workitup.org .
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ABOUT MCED
The Maine Center for Enterprise Development, www.mced.biz, provides an experiential learning environment to start-ups and early stage entrepreneurs for the creation and growth of quality companies through incubation, entrepreneurial development and education. MCED is a private, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization created to establish an environment where small companies, start-ups and first-time entrepreneurs can grow, prosper and successfully commercialize their business in southern Maine. For more information, contact Steve Bazinet, MCED President, at SBazinet@mced.biz or 228-8525.

Additional information about The Professionals-in-Residence Program is available on MCED’s website at http://www.mced.biz/news.html#Professionals .