Organizations across the state tout the internships as an open invitation to young talent to find employment and settle in a region. A recent $1.2 million infusion in a statewide program could help stop the state's brain drain.
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The Intern In Michigan program got a big bump this week when the W.K. Kellogg Foundation pledged $1.2 million to support it.
The funding will keep the program up and running through 2012. The program intends to encourage more businesses, big and small, in the state to create and expand internship programs to help staunch Michigan's brain drain.
The Detroit Regional Chamber is partnering with the West Michigan Strategic Alliance to push the program forward. Grants from the U.S. Department of Labor's Workforce Innovations in Regional Economic Development program and the New Economy Initiative for Southeast Michigan helped it gain traction in Metro Detroit earlier this year. This new money will help spread the program across the state.
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