In August 2012 VGA hosted a forum at the Southside Virginia Community College, Christianna Campus, to discuss new resources available to the Southern Virginia communities, including how to encourage the community's unexpected entrepreneurs and emerging leaders and charting out an initial path for how to be involved in assessing the region today and shaping it for tomorrow. Listen to Keynote speaker Beth Doughty, executive director of the Roanoke Regional Partnership, share the benefits and challenges of a coordinated economic development approach that combines regional identity strategies, community building efforts, entrepreneurial approaches, and targeted industrial attraction.

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