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South Bend Redevelopment Commission <br />Regular Meeting –March 5, 2010 <br /> <br />T-shirts for its upcoming dodge ball event the <br />end of March. <br /> <br />Mr. Summers believes they are being as <br />creative as anyone could be trying to create <br />opportunities for its clients. And after clients <br />are placed, doing a great job for an existing <br />employer, Project Impact is beating the <br />bushes trying to find the next, better job for <br />them. <br /> <br />Ms. King asked how long his list was of the <br />businesses in the AEDA he contacted. Mr. <br />Summers responded that they contacted over <br />one hundred with marketing materials, but <br />were only able to talk face to face with about <br />fifty. Mr. Summers added that he joined the <br />Rotary Club last year hoping to get more <br />opportunity to personally explain Project <br />Impact’s mission. It didn’t work as well as <br />he’d hoped. <br /> <br />Mr. Downes noted that the Commission <br />wouldn’t have appropriated the funds earlier <br />in the meeting if it wasn’t in favor of Project <br />Impact’s program. Everyone is counting on <br />this being a success. That’s a lot of pressure <br />on Mr. Summers and Mr. Blake. He asked if <br />Mr. Summers was more or less optimistic for <br />2010 than he was at the start of the program. <br />Mr. Summers responded that about three <br />months ago his answer would have been that <br />he was less optimistic. He was very <br />frustrated and discouraged then because he <br />couldn’t get in the door to talk to people. He <br />had forty clients standing up to say if it <br />weren’t for this program they’d be back in <br />jail right now, and Mr. Summers couldn’t get <br />any businessman to say that really mattered. <br />After meeting with WorkOne and seeing how <br />excited they were to partner with Project <br />Impact, after Project Impact’s open house <br /> 36 <br /> <br />