March/April 2003
Regional Organizations
Impact Rural Communities
Regional development organizations
(RDOs) positively impact the economic condition of
rural communities throughout the United States.
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Foundation Zanetta Doyle, Editor
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Loan Funds Key to
Regional Economic Strength
Over the past three decades, regional development
organizations (RDOs) have made thousands of loans
to new and expanding small businesses that have
created and saved hundreds of thousands of vital
jobs in rural and small metropolitan America.
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Regional Organizations Offer
Full Slate of Services
Regional organizations develop and
implement programs that directly impact the lives of
rural residents and their communities.
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What are Regional
Development Organizations
and What Do They Do?
Highlights from NADO's 2002 Regional
Development Organization Survey.
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Infrastructure: An Economic Foundation
in Rural America
Infrastructure in rural and small
metropolitan America typically means water/wastewater
systems, transportation structures such as roads and
bridges and telecommunications such as T-1 lines and
transmitter towers. But infrastructure also includes
a community’s economic development foundation.
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Regions Expand Role
in Homeland Security
Each time the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) raises the security threat level from
yellow to orange, local and state governments must
respond by increasing security.
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GIS & Economic Development
Go Hand in Hand
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
technology is being used by regional organizations to
create innovative and efficient ways to further economic
development in their regions.
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