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Ann Arbor SPARK’s marketing materials recently took top honors from the Michigan Economic Development Association.  Also, our business accelerator was awarded honorable mention from the International Economic Development Council.

Left to Right: William Best, FM – Chairman of the IEDC Board of Directors; Valerie Christofferson - Ann Arbor SPARK Business Accelerator; Timothy Solomon, CEcD – Chairman of the IEDC Awards Task Force
Valerie Christofferson accepts Ann Arbor SPARK's IEDC award. L to R: William Best, FM – Chairman of the IEDC Board of Directors; Christofferson; Timothy Solomon, CEcD – Chairman of the IEDC Awards Task Force

For the MEDA award, Ann Arbor SPARK competed against other economic development organizations in the state serving the population of 100,001 to 500,000.   For IEDC, we competed in the populations of 25,000 – 200,000 category against economic development organizations globally.

More info on the awards can be found here.