Case Study: Utah Post-Secondary Edu Partners and Future Ready Utah
The value of establishing effective and ongoing collaborations between EDDs and post-secondary educational providers is on display in southern Utah.
April 24, 2024
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Case Study: Virginia Tech and New River Valley Regional Commission
The value of forging meaningful partnerships between EDDs and universities to promote economic resilience and equitable growth is on display in southwestern Virginia’s Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains.
April 24, 2024
Webinar: Focusing on Assets Through Wealth Creation
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.
June 26, 2024
Webinar: Building a Wealth Creation Learning Community
In this first webinar of a series, NADO Research Foundation’s Melissa Levy interviews Region Five Development Commission Executive Director Cheryal Hills about how she got started with WealthWorks, how she began to integrate it into her work, and how she uses it now. Following the guided discussion, participants engaged in a conversation of the greater wealth creation community and what would be most useful to that community moving forward. Aspen Community Strategies Group also shared online tools and resources for practitioners as part of the discussion.
April 5, 2024
Tip Sheet: Research, Partnerships, and Technical Assistance Between EDDs and HEIs
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.
March 26, 2024
Western Piedmont Council of Governments Regional Housing Growth Toolkit
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.
March 26, 2024
How to Build a Regional Housing Land Bank Guide
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.
March 26, 2024
Resilience Workshop Planning Guide
Regional development organizations are using local and regional resilience workshops to identify community climate and economic resilience needs, connect local leaders with funding opportunities, and create action plans for future sustainable growth. This new NADO resource provides a walk through of how organizations can bring these resilience workshops to their own regions. Topics covered include workshop goalsetting, stakeholder engagement, and post-workshop implementation, evaluation, and follow-up.
March 20, 2024
Wealth Creation
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.
January 6, 2024
Solving the Housing Puzzle: EDDs as Regional Housing Changemakers
Read the one-page summary here (PDF). This housing research report is the first step for NADO Research Foundation staff and partners in showcasing the valuable
November 17, 2023