CEDS Strategy Committee members are integral partners to EDDs in driving regional economic growth. This latest resource highlights best practices and tips for for building an impactful CEDS Strategy Committee.
This 15-minute video tutorial and accompanying brief shares ideas for how EDDs can best incorporate workforce development and upskilling strategies into the CEDS process and document. Topics include: Workforce Development as Infrastructure; Data-Driven and Targeted Upskilling; and Holistic and Inclusive Economic Strategies
This second webinar in the wealth creation series showcases how EDDs can use the eight capitals as a framework for identifying and building on assets in economic development. Kade Jones talks about how Acadiana Planning Commission in Louisiana is using wealth creation in its community prospectuses (through its Opportunity Zone initiative) and its CEDS, through its SWOT analysis, its strategies and its metrics. Eric Smith, of Great Lakes Urban and USDA Extension, speaks through storytelling about how wealth creation has figured into his work in Appalachian Ohio, Uganda and Michigan. This session also provided space for participants to network and discuss ways that they might consider assets in their work.
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) offer unique resources that help increase the capacity of EDDs to carry out their work, including specialized research, training programs, technology transfer, and commercialization capabilities. Read this piece, written by EDD CoP project partner UEDA, for tips on initiating, improving, and sustaining partnerships between EDDs and HEIs.
Economic Development Districts (EDDs) can use in-house community and economic development planning experience to provide localized recommendations and strategies for their member communities as these communities take on affordable housing challenges. View this case study to learn more.
Regional development organizations and Economic Development Districts have used regional housing land banks as a tool for targeted neighborhood revitalization and redevelopment. This NADO Research Foundation resource provides an overview of regional housing land banks and considerations for how organizations can implement these programs into their regions.
The Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness (CREC), in partnership with the National Association of Development Organizations Research Foundation (NADO) and others, received funding from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) to analyze the current alignment of state and EDD strategies, raise awareness of the benefits of strategic alignment, develop a best practices guide, and provide technical assistance to states and EDDs to enhance alignment.
Wealth creation is an approach to economic development that connects a region’s assets to market demand in ways that build rooted wealth for local people, places and firms. It brings together a range of public, private and non-profit sector partners who have self- interest in the outcomes and an openness to discovering shared or common interests.
The North Central Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission created the North Central Data Dashboard, an online Dashboard that everyone in the region can use to track efforts to further regional economic development progress.
This paper explores the content of the Thriving Downtowns investment playbook, translating the most meaningful content for EDDs, while showcasing how EDDs are playing roles in downtown revitalization in their regions.