Articles by: Kate Humphrey

• Green River Area Development District: Stop Senior Hunger

  Posted on: October 4th, 2012 by Kate Humphrey

  NADO’s 2012 Innovation Awards recognized 64 projects from 22 states for their creative approaches to regional community and economic development, including the project described below. Click here... for the full list of winners. The Green River Area Development District (GRADD)

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• Mid-East Commission Area Agency on Aging: Beaufort County Resource Connection

  Posted on: October 4th, 2012 by Kate Humphrey

  NADO’s 2012 Innovation Awards recognized 64 projects from 22 states for their creative approaches to regional community and economic development, including the project described below. Click here... for the full list of winners. Recognizing the need for a central repository

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• East Central Planning and Development District: Town of Pachuta Senior Citizen Center

  Posted on: October 4th, 2012 by Kate Humphrey

  NADO’s 2012 Innovation Awards recognized 64 projects from 22 states for their creative approaches to regional community and economic development, including the project described below. Click here... for the full list of winners. Residents in the town of Pachuta, Mississippi

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• Georgia Mountains Regional Commission: Ty Cobb Regional Medical Center

  Posted on: October 4th, 2012 by Kate Humphrey

  NADO’s 2012 Innovation Awards recognized 64 projects from 22 states for their creative approaches to regional community and economic development, including the project described below. Click here... for the full list of winners. A partnership of over 80 local primary

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• 2012 NADO Innovation Awards

  Posted on: October 4th, 2012 by Kate Humphrey

  ... The National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) annual Innovation Awards program has been acknowledging creative approaches to regional community and economic development since 1986. Since the program’s inception, more than 1,300 projects have been honored. The 2012 Innovation Award winners

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• NADO Recognizes 2012 Innovation Award Winners

  Posted on: August 17th, 2012 by Kate Humphrey

  NADO Recognizes the 2012 Innovation Award Winners For 26 years, NADO’s Annual Innovation Award program has honored members who have had significant and positive impacts on their regions through innovative approaches to problem solving and program delivery.  We are pleased...

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• Lessons Learned from Irene: Vermont RPCs Address Transportation System Recovery

  Posted on: June 29th, 2012 by Kate Humphrey

  One week after striking the U.S. east coast as a category 1 hurricane, Irene arrived in Vermont on August 27, 2011. Flooding was devastating for transportation infrastructure, leading the RPCs to assist the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) in the recovery.

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• The Alabama Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy

  Posted on: June 19th, 2012 by Kate Humphrey

  The final presenter on the second panel was Jeff Pruitt from the Top of Alabama Regional Council of Governments. Pruitt spoke about preparing Alabama’s statewide Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and its relationship to transportation planning. The 12 regional councils...

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• The Northern Maine Rail Initiative

  Posted on: June 19th, 2012 by Kate Humphrey

  The next presenter was Alain Ouellette from the Northern Maine Development Commission (NMDC), who spoke about saving a significant 233-mile rail corridor in his region. Aroostook County has an extensive history of industrial rail, dating back to 1891. Today, large...

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• Sustainable Eastern Connecticut

  Posted on: June 19th, 2012 by Kate Humphrey

  ...The second panel, focused on integrating transportation planning and economic development, began with a presentation by Ken Livingston, of Fitzgerald & Halliday, and Mark Paquette, of the Windham Regional Council of Governments, on creating a regional sustainability plan for eastern

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