Digestibles

Analyzing RLFs
The NADO Research Foundation’s Economic Development Finance Service (EDFS) has published EDA RLFs Make a Difference. This report explores how the Economic Development Administration’s Revolving Loan Fund Program Promotes Business Development and Job Creation.

Contact: Bill Amt, EDFS Manager at 202/624-8467 or email bamt@nado.org
Cost: Free

Welfare to Work Performance
The Welfare Information Network’s (WIN) website now offers a “Resource for Welfare Decisions” web page. The page offers performance measurement and outcome data for professionals interested in self-evaluating service delivery performance.

Contact: Welfare Information Network, http://www.welfareinfo.org/performance.html, 202/628-5790.
Cost: Free

Rural IT Lessons Learned
Networking the Land: Rural America in the Information Age by U.S. Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) is the seventh in a series that explores the experiences and lessons learned by Technical Opportunity Program (TOP)-funded projects. The report includes ten case studies.

Contact: U.S. Department of Commerce NTIA, 202/482-2048, www.ntia.doc.gov/top/publications.
Cost: Free

The following publications are free. Copies can be requested by contacting EDA at 202/482-4085 or by visiting www.doc.gov/eda.

Does Technology Incubation Work?
Author David A. Lewis at Rutgers University’s National Center for Neighborhood and Brownfields Redevelopment and the Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) report, Does Technology Incubation Work? A Critical Review, investigates the link between technological innovations, industrial location and regional development among business incubators. A best practices section and a glossary of terms simplify the report findings.

Internet for Economic Development
The Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) 2001 report, Internet-Based Economic Development for Rural Communities, authored by Dr. Jo Min, Balaji Sikhumaran and Siju Varghese at Iowa State University, explores the various ways that rural communities can maximize broadband technology for economic development. Decision-making models and case studies provide cost-benefit data.

The Old With The New
Older Central Counties in the New Economy, a 2001 report was released as a collaborative effort with the Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA), Case Western Reserve University, Cuyahoga County Planning Commission, Ohio and author Paul D. Gottlieb, PhD. Filled with comparative data, the report explains how some counties have tackled the need to develop infrastructure to keep up with growth and new technology.

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