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Resilient Regions: Integrating Economic Development Strategies, Sustainability Principles and Hazard Mitigation Planning
This new report released in July 2011 provides an in-depth look at the roles that regional planning and development organizations are taking to help local and regional economies re-build after natural disasters. The Resilient Regions... (PDF) report focuses on efforts
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Exploring the Role of Regional Transportation Projects as Rural Economy Drivers
(http://www NULL.ruraltransportation NULL.org/uploads/RegTransit NULL.pdf)The NADO Research Foundation has just released a new report on regional transit, developed through its Center for Transportation Advancement and Regional Development in July 2011. With case studies in Alabama, Oregon, and Vermont, this report explores...
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Rural Cluster Development in Kansas
NADO staff joined leaders from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Economic Development Administration (EDA) in a peer exchange with Kansas State Universities’ Advanced Manufacturing Institute (AMI) (http://www NULL.amisuccess NULL.com/) and the Kansas Association of Regional Development Organizations...
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2011 NADO Regional Sustainable Forum
On July 25, 2011, the NADO Research Foundation is sponsoring a peer exchange, 2011 Regional Sustainable Development Forum: Building Resilient Regions, at the office of the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) in Kansas City, Missouri. Combined file of all forum presentations ...
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Congratulations to the Winners of the NADO 2011 Excellence in Regional Transportation Award!
The NADO Research Foundation sponsors an annual award program to honor innovative and excellent approaches to regional transportation planning and program implementation. Congratulations to this year’s Excellence in Regional Transportation Award recipients! Winners will be honored at the Awards Reception...
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Congratulations to the 2011 NADO Award Winners
Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the NADO Innovation Award and the Excellence in Regional Transportation Award! Click here for the list of Innovation Award winners (PDF) Click here for the project descriptions and contact information of the Innovation Award ...
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Rural-Urban Connections in the Sacramento Region
To view a recording of the webinar, click here. (http://www NULL.ruraltransportation NULL.org/uploads/sacog NULL.wmv) On Tuesday, July 12, NADO Research Foundation sponsored “Rural-Urban Connections in the Sacramento Region,” a webinar exploring how the Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) is addressing...
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US DOT Webinar: Lessons on How to Compete for a USDOT TIGER Grant
In preparation for the release of its FY 2011 TIGER Discretionary Grants, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) will be holding the webinar Lessons on How to Compete for a USDOT TIGER Grant on Monday, July 18, 2011 from 1:00...
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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...
