{"podcast":{"title":"Manufacturing an American Century","slug":"manufacturing-an-american-century-6604798","podcast_index_feed_id":6604798,"rss_url":"https://rss.art19.com/manufacturing-an-american-century","website_url":"https://americanmcc.org/amcc-podcast/","image_url":"https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/images/06/a6/77/6c/06a6776c-7e7f-404d-a6a4-506f774613d3/d1a0836cab3e4583286e1472a4f9b25ac58b5530e7c0395d15fab100962b332f4f1a184b647690231329a71fbaba73fc4a9ba33689a2d4e0f76a7fb928892e54.jpeg","author":"AMCC","episode_count":49,"summary":"About the American Manufacturing Communities Collaborative (AMCC) AMCC is a non-profit organization assembled and led by a group of regional and national stakeholders dedicated to strengthening collaboration within and between regional manufacturing communities. AMCC works to achieve sustainable development in America through economic growth, improved environmental performance, and inclusive well-paid job creation to support the revitalization of American manufacturing. Born out of an interagency program, the Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership (IMCP), AMCC was created as a national organization of regional stakeholders to continue the important work of deepening connections and sharing best practices within community ecosystems and between manufacturing regions. AMCC has championed the bottom-up, community-driven model of building ecosystems of support to help manufacturers thrive, and was recently designated by the U.S. EDA as the nation’s manufacturing Community of Practice. AMCC supports regional consortia organized to strengthen manufacturing in any number of public/private initiatives to include federal agency community designation programs like IMCP, DOD’s DM…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-03T16:21:42.805239+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/manufacturing-an-american-century-6604798"},"episode":{"title":"Trust, Place, and the Future of Regional Manufacturing Growth with Chuck Shoopman","slug":"trust-place-and-the-future-of-regional-manufacturing-growth-with-chuck-shoopman","published_at":"2025-05-30T16:37:26+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/manufacturing-an-american-century-6604798/trust-place-and-the-future-of-regional-manufacturing-growth-with-chuck-shoopman","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/manufacturing-an-american-century-6604798","url":"https://rss.art19.com/episodes/ea76954e-5c5b-4ddc-a5ec-d2c004b78105.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","audio_url":"https://rss.art19.com/episodes/ea76954e-5c5b-4ddc-a5ec-d2c004b78105.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0","summary":"In this episode, I sit down with my old friend and longtime collaborator Chuck Shoopman, president of Growth Innovations Group and a leader in Tennessee. We take a trip down memory lane back to our days with E3 and the early IMCP initiatives and talk about how those early bottom-up, place-based strategies have now become central to national economic revitalization efforts. Chuck shares relevant stories from his time at the Tennessee Valley Authority and the University of Tennessee, reflecting on how losing manufacturing jobs impacted rural communities and why rebuilding that foundation matters now more than ever. We dive into the critical role of trust in regional collaboration, the unique value that universities can bring when they truly partner with communities, and why private sector helpers like Chuck’s group are vital to strengthening local manufacturers. If you care about sustainable economic development, workforce readiness, and America’s role in a global manufacturing race, this one’s for you. We cover a lot but it all comes back to working together at the regional level to move the national project forward. AMCC’s podcast is made possible in part by the expertise of Mike McAllen, founder of Podcasting4Associations . Are you part of an association also looking to produce a podcast? Let us get you in touch with Mike. Thank you to the Economic Development Administration for their partnership in producing this podcast. This podcast was prepared in part using Federal funds under award 3070145 from the Economic Development Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. 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