September 2003
Innovations Deliver
Local Assistance
Since 1986 NADO has been collecting and
sharing information about innovative programs and projects
in small metropolitan and rural America.
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Foundation Zanetta Doyle, Editor
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Aging and Human Services
This category of projects and programs reveals the need
for local government assistance and services.
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Business and Entrepreneurship
Development
Industrial park development, business
clusters, revitalization, economic diversification,
microenterprise support, lender tax credits, loan funds
and infrastructure -- all these elements are needed to
support business and entrepreneurial growth.
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Community, Economic and
Social Development
These projects not only support
development, but also provide local governments with
technical services, planning assistance and the in-kind
services that many small and rural communities are unable
to provide for themselves.
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Emergency Response
and Mitigation
These regional projects and programs
exemplify the overlap between the services that regional
organizations provide communities such as, creating
emergency guides for Area Agencies on Aging and improving
emergency response times by using GIS technology.
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Environment
The regional nature of environmental
projects and programs have shaped the focus of these
projects on areas such as watershed planning, water
resource protection, water quality management, brownfields
redevelopment, transportation impacts and habitat
management.
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Housing
These housing projects combine
regional organization experience in technology, planning
and coordination, resulting in housing opportunities that
support regional economic and community development.
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Technology
These technology projects display the
wide variety of ways that regional organizations can
assist local governments, such as using GIS for smart
growth planning, and developing electronic forms to extend
e-government practices. Each project expands the region’s
potential for sustainable economic development.
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Tourism
These projects and programs
effectively use marketing, scenic byways, heritage
corridors and collaboration as tools to make tourism
development cost efficient and strategic. All enhance
economic and community development opportunities.
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Transportation
These transportation projects -- rural
planning, transit, safety, scenic byways, GIS mapping and
rail -- validate the benefits that occur when regional
development organizations administer local transportation
planning and implementation.
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Workforce Development
The skill training, entrepreneurial
support, job training and labor assistance incorporated
regional workforce development plans are well represented
by these projects and programs, which demonstrate how the
labor force is a key element to successful economic
development.
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