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More Details of Surface Transportation Reauthorizations Released
This week, both the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) and the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure took steps closer to introducing their surface transportation reauthorization bills. Senate EPW Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has now said that...
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DOT Announces Third Round of TIGER Grants
On June 30, the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) announced that $527 million will be available for the third round of the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program grants. To date, the TIGER program has funded roads, bridges, freight...
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Rural Development in a One America Policy
By Matthew Chase, Executive Director National Association of Development Organizations (Reprinted from AgriPulse blog (http://www NULL.agri-pulse NULL.com/Opinion_Matthew_Chase_06282011 NULL.asp)) What do the White House, Council on Foundations, Farm Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative have in common? All of these prestigious...
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Accessing the Regional Innovation Acceleration Network
On June 28, the NADO Research Foundation held the webinar “Accessing the Regional Innovation Acceleration Network” through the Know Your Region program, funded by the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA). The Regional Innovation Acceleration Network (RIAN) is an EDA-funded project ...
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Land-Based Sustainable Development Strategies in Western North Carolina
The NADO Research Foundation is sponsoring a two-part webinar series exploring how regional development organizations are incorporating sustainability principles into their regional planning processes. The first webinar of the series, “Land-Based Sustainable Development Strategies in Western North Carolina”, was held...
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Transportation Resources
RuralTransportation.org (http://ruraltransportation NULL.org/pages/page NULL.asp?page_id=59033) is NADO’s portal for all information related to rural and regional transportation research and planning practice. To find additional resources within NADO.org related to transportation, start here....
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New Report on Rural Transportation, Economic Development and Quality of Life
The Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) has released a new policy brief, Rethinking Federal Investments in Rural Transportation: Rural Considerations Regarding Reauthorization of the Surface Transportation Act (http://www NULL.rupri NULL.org/Forms/RUPRI_Transportation_April2011 NULL.pdf) (PDF), which shows that America’s rural areas, small towns,...
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Fed Highway Admin Releases Livability Report
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) recently released a new report that provides an overview of the current state of the practice relative to the implementation of livability principles within the context of the Federal-aid highway program. This research paper, The...
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Sample Bylaws
Bylaws are a set of rules developed by a local authority to regulate its affairs and formalize the conduct of management over the area it governs. Below please find sample bylaws from NADO member regions: Ohio Valley Regional Planning Commission...
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Public Sector Business Loan Funds: Views and Recommendations from Practitioners
...In an effort to improve the understanding of the public business loan fund industry, the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) Research Foundation and the Development District Association of Appalachia (DDAA) sponsored a convening of the nation’s leading loan fund
