The Upstate Sector Strategy’s Team is the core Public Partner Team that support the Upstate region’s industry-led, industry-centered partnerships, currently in Manufacturing and Logistics. These sector partnerships use the “Next Generation Sector Partnership” methodology that centers industry at the center of the conversation, allowing them to drive and own the actions and solutions to their most pressing opportunities.

There are currently approximately 100 Next Gen Sector Partnerships in a variety of different regions and industries across a national community of practice. The model achieves two important outcomes:

1. Co-investment by businesses in a shared industry into the biggest shared regional opportunities and most persistent issues.

2. Enhanced and scaled up coordination by a region’s support partner system, often made up of education and training, workforce development, economic development, and government partners responsible for supporting industry, economic, and community growth.

As a team of partners who all have similar mission, vision, and values around supporting the Upstate’s key industries that drive the economy, support our workforce, and growing the community, we are committed to working with industry, in public-private partnerships, to harness the opportunities identified by our industry leaders, as the most important for their industry in the present moment.