NADO members and other economic and community development stakeholders are encouraged to use the advocacy resources below to amplify NADO’s advocacy efforts and policy priorities.
This handout provides a high-level overview of NADO and NADO members’ key advocacy priorities for calendar year 2026. Provide this fact sheet to your Senators and Representatives.
Provide this fact sheet to your Senators and Representatives when advocating for funding for EDA and EDA Partnership Planning Grants.
Share this one-pager and meet with your congressional delegation to continue educating them on regional priorities for surface transportation reauthorization.
Share this one-pager and meet with your congressional delegation to advocate for dedicated funding for Regional Transportation Planning Organizations (RTPOs).
Share this fact sheet with your members of Congress to emphasize the importance of transportation programs and policy changes.
This analysis is intended to help EDDs and their stakeholders understand key provisions within the enacted legislation that reauthorized EDA and its core programs.
Share this letter with your members of Congress to emphasize the importance of Partnership Planning funding increases.
Use this resource to craft programmatic funding requests for the FY 2027 Appropriations cycle. Template language included.
NADO urges congress to strongly oppose the proposed elimination of all Federal Regional Commissions in the President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Budget Request and to instead support robust funding at the authorized level for each commission in the FY 2026 appropriations process.
NADO will submit comments for the U.S. Department of Transportation – Office of the Secretary’s request for information concerning the Rural Opportunities to Use Transportation for Economic Success (ROUTES) initiative.
Questions? Contact Mirielle Burgoyne.