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The Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University today announced the Higher Education Initiative of Kingsport, Tennessee, as a 2009 Innovations in American Government Award winner. Formerly a rustbelt city with an overreliance on heavy manufacturing, Kingsports growing aging population, shrinking younger workforce, and dropping education levels of area residents threatened to further depress the regions standard of living. In order to reverse this impending economic crisis, Kingsport launched a successful Educate and Grow campaign to attract new business investment to the region by upgrading the quality of its workforce.

Started in 2001, the program is one of six government initiatives honored at yesterdays awards reception in Washington, D.C. and will receive a grant towards sharing its innovation with other jurisdictions around the country. The event concluded with the premier of 2009 Visionaries, a PBS-produced documentary highlighting this years Innovations winners.