"Blueprint Maryland" Forms to Initiate Statewide Dialogue on Job Creation and Long-Term Economic Planning

CHEVY CHASE, Md., June 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Maryland businessman John Delaney today announced the formation of Blueprint Maryland, a non-partisan, not-for-profit statewide community initiative to explore and better understand Maryland's economic climate and to advocate for opportunities for long-term, sustainable private sector job growth in Maryland.  

"Our work will combine the resources of state and national economic policy experts with the best ideas derived from a broad-based, inclusive dialogue with people from across the state," said John Delaney, Chairman of Blueprint Maryland.  "For our region's future, it's crucial that we better understand how to harness all that Maryland has to offer and make our state as economically competitive as possible to create jobs now and for generations to come. This effort is particularly important as we face changing patterns in federal spending."

Formed as a non-profit organization, Blueprint Maryland will organize and facilitate an inclusive exchange of economic development ideas among entrepreneurs, community organizations, labor unions, small businesses and hard-working families across the state.  The goal of the collaborative effort will be to identify solutions for long-term job growth, explore and refine the ideas through expert research and develop a strategy to promote and implement these ideas.

"From our unions to our largest companies, we all recognize the need to create more stable, quality jobs for our broad work force," continued Delaney.  "Blueprint Maryland is a pro-active effort to bring concerned Marylanders from throughout our diverse regions to the table and tap into their innovation and creativity to brainstorm, strategize, and develop solutions for the most critical economic development challenges and opportunities facing our state."

In addition to opening its office today, in the coming weeks, Blueprint Maryland will launch an interactive website and online economic development resource center where Marylanders can share their ideas, their successes and their challenges, release its first economic analysis on a variety of key factors for Maryland's economy, and organize roundtable discussions and community forums across Maryland to start the conversation on job creation in every region of the state.

About John K. Delaney:  By the age of 40, John Delaney created two successful NYSE listed businesses in Maryland that helped create thousands of jobs and successfully financed over 10,000 small to mid-sized businesses.  He is currently Chairman of the Board of Alliance Partners and Chairman of the Board of CapitolSource, Inc., a NYSE company he co-founded.

Prior to co-founding CapitolSource, Mr. Delaney was a founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Healthcare Financial Partners, Inc., one of the leading lenders to small and mid-sized healthcare companies prior to its sale to Heller Financial.

Mr. Delaney received an Undergraduate Degree from Columbia University and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.  He is a member of the Board of Directors of Georgetown University and serves on the Executive Committee of the Board; and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Potomac School.  He is immediate past Chairman of the Board of St. Patrick's Episcopal Day School in Washington, DC.

Mr. Delaney was the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Winner in 2005.  He and his wife, April McClain-Delaney, are active philanthropists in the region and were honored among the metro area's outstanding philanthropists in 2007.  They reside in Montgomery County with their four children.

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SOURCE Blueprint Maryland