DATE: 8:30 a.m.-noon, Feb. 6, 2008.

EVENT: The University of Michigan’s EDA Community Economic Adjustment Program and Washtenaw United Way will host a community workshop designed to bring together representatives from federal and state agencies with local and regional leaders to discuss potential funding opportunities.

U-M’s EDA Community Economic Adjustment Program is part of the University Center for Economic Diversification, Office of the Vice President for Research. The center was awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce to assist communities in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana that are experiencing major automotive plant closings and mass layoffs.

The program helps communities organize and prepare strategic plans directed toward economic recovery and to mitigate adverse socioeconomic effects of major economic dislocation and distress.

PLACE: Washtenaw United Way, 2305 Platt Rd., Ann Arbor.

CONTACT: Lawrence Molnar, director of U-M’s EDA Center for Economic Diversification, (734) 998-6239 or [email protected]