{"id":31700,"date":"2012-01-04T17:48:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T22:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=31700"},"modified":"2012-01-04T17:51:01","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T22:51:01","slug":"job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Job Farmer’ Recognized as Newsmaker of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2009, the state set up the Economic Gardening Technical Assistance pilot program, now known as GrowFL. The program helps so-called “second-stage” businesses with $1 million to $25 million in revenue and 10 to 50 workers that have demonstrated potential for growth and expansion in industries on the state’s target list.<\/p>\n

GrowFL provides various technical and educational assistance, including market research data, workshops, seminars and assistance with business strategy.<\/p>\n

A study last year found that since late 2009, GrowFL has contributed more than 1,400 direct jobs at more than 300 companies, which grew nearly 11% faster than similar companies that didn’t get help. The largest single category of jobs created was in the high-paying “technical and scientific” category.<\/p>\n

The study found GrowFL had generated nearly $19 million in state and local tax revenue beyond the $3.5 million cost of the technical assistance program.<\/p>\n

GrowFL \u2014 now managed under UCF’s Florida Economic Gardening Institute \u2014 is led by Executive Director Tom O’Neal, who is also associate vice president of research and commercialization at UCF; and Fran Korosec, director of client services for the Gardening Institute.<\/p>\n

Source: Florida Trend, January 2012 issue, Politics\/Government Newsmakers of the Year, by Mark R. Howard.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a year when “jobs, jobs, jobs” was the dominant catchphrase, one group delivered — GrowFL, managed by UCF’s Florida Economic Gardening Institute and led by Tom O’Neal.","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":31704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6615,5513],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-31700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-fran-korosec","tag-tom-oneal"],"yoast_head":"\n'Job Farmer' Recognized as Newsmaker of Year | University of Central Florida News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a year when "jobs, jobs, jobs" was the dominant catchphrase, one group delivered -- GrowFL, managed by UCF's Florida Economic Gardening Institute and led by Tom O'Neal.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"'Job Farmer' Recognized as Newsmaker of Year\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a year when "jobs, jobs, jobs" was the dominant catchphrase, one group delivered -- GrowFL, managed by UCF's Florida Economic Gardening Institute and led by Tom O'Neal.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"University of Central Florida News | UCF Today\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UCF\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-01-04T22:48:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2012-01-04T22:51:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2012\/01\/tom_2009.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"154\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"182\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chad Binette \u201906MPA\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@UCF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@UCF\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Chad Binette \u201906MPA\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Chad Binette \u201906MPA\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/903c8395fc752306f926db4ebed914db\"},\"headline\":\"‘Job Farmer’ Recognized as Newsmaker of Year\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-01-04T22:48:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-01-04T22:51:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":212,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2012\\\/01\\\/tom_2009.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Fran Korosec\",\"Tom O'Neal\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Business & Economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"copyrightYear\":\"2012\",\"copyrightHolder\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/#organization\"}},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\\\/\",\"name\":\"'Job Farmer' Recognized as Newsmaker of Year | University of Central Florida News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2012\\\/01\\\/tom_2009.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-01-04T22:48:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-01-04T22:51:01+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/903c8395fc752306f926db4ebed914db\"},\"description\":\"In a year when \\\"jobs, jobs, jobs\\\" was the dominant catchphrase, one group delivered -- GrowFL, managed by UCF's Florida Economic Gardening Institute and led by Tom O'Neal.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2012\\\/01\\\/tom_2009.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/wp-content\\\/blogs.dir\\\/20\\\/files\\\/2012\\\/01\\\/tom_2009.jpg\",\"width\":154,\"height\":182},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"‘Job Farmer’ Recognized as Newsmaker of Year\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"University of Central Florida News | UCF Today\",\"description\":\"Central Florida Research, Arts, Technology, Student Life and College News, Stories and More\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/903c8395fc752306f926db4ebed914db\",\"name\":\"Chad Binette \u201906MPA\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1ee70bde7d3b11b895c6d07e1a6a81278fbdd43c8b902e5d32fc7e7a5f2fda0b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1ee70bde7d3b11b895c6d07e1a6a81278fbdd43c8b902e5d32fc7e7a5f2fda0b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/1ee70bde7d3b11b895c6d07e1a6a81278fbdd43c8b902e5d32fc7e7a5f2fda0b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Chad Binette \u201906MPA\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/author\\\/cbinette\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ucf.edu\\\/news\\\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\\\/#local-main-organization-logo\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\",\"caption\":\"University of Central Florida\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"'Job Farmer' Recognized as Newsmaker of Year | University of Central Florida News","description":"In a year when \"jobs, jobs, jobs\" was the dominant catchphrase, one group delivered -- GrowFL, managed by UCF's Florida Economic Gardening Institute and led by Tom O'Neal.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"'Job Farmer' Recognized as Newsmaker of Year","og_description":"In a year when \"jobs, jobs, jobs\" was the dominant catchphrase, one group delivered -- GrowFL, managed by UCF's Florida Economic Gardening Institute and led by Tom O'Neal.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\/","og_site_name":"University of Central Florida News | UCF Today","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UCF","article_published_time":"2012-01-04T22:48:04+00:00","article_modified_time":"2012-01-04T22:51:01+00:00","og_image":[{"width":154,"height":182,"url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2012\/01\/tom_2009.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Chad Binette \u201906MPA","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@UCF","twitter_site":"@UCF","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Chad Binette \u201906MPA","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\/"},"author":{"name":"Chad Binette \u201906MPA","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/903c8395fc752306f926db4ebed914db"},"headline":"‘Job Farmer’ Recognized as Newsmaker of Year","datePublished":"2012-01-04T22:48:04+00:00","dateModified":"2012-01-04T22:51:01+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\/"},"wordCount":212,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2012\/01\/tom_2009.jpg","keywords":["Fran Korosec","Tom O'Neal"],"articleSection":["Business & Economy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","copyrightYear":"2012","copyrightHolder":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/#organization"}},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\/","name":"'Job Farmer' Recognized as Newsmaker of Year | University of Central Florida News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2012\/01\/tom_2009.jpg","datePublished":"2012-01-04T22:48:04+00:00","dateModified":"2012-01-04T22:51:01+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/903c8395fc752306f926db4ebed914db"},"description":"In a year when \"jobs, jobs, jobs\" was the dominant catchphrase, one group delivered -- GrowFL, managed by UCF's Florida Economic Gardening Institute and led by Tom O'Neal.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2012\/01\/tom_2009.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2012\/01\/tom_2009.jpg","width":154,"height":182},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"‘Job Farmer’ Recognized as Newsmaker of Year"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/","name":"University of Central Florida News | UCF Today","description":"Central Florida Research, Arts, Technology, Student Life and College News, Stories and More","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/903c8395fc752306f926db4ebed914db","name":"Chad Binette \u201906MPA","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1ee70bde7d3b11b895c6d07e1a6a81278fbdd43c8b902e5d32fc7e7a5f2fda0b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1ee70bde7d3b11b895c6d07e1a6a81278fbdd43c8b902e5d32fc7e7a5f2fda0b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1ee70bde7d3b11b895c6d07e1a6a81278fbdd43c8b902e5d32fc7e7a5f2fda0b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Chad Binette \u201906MPA"},"url":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/author\/cbinette\/"},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/job-farmer-recognized-as-newsmaker-of-year\/#local-main-organization-logo","url":"","contentUrl":"","caption":"University of Central Florida"}]}},"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2012\/01\/tom_2009.jpg","primary_category":4,"primary_tag":6615,"author_byline":"Mark R. Howard","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31700"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31709,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31700\/revisions\/31709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31700"},{"taxonomy":"tu_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tu_author?post=31700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}