The National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) Research Foundation is pleased to announce that 10 attendees of its first-ever one-year Economic Development District Training Program,
Across the nation, state agencies and regional planning and development organizations are working together and with other partners to create jobs, improve access to employment, education, and essential services, and to advance quality of life in communities and regions.
The decline of the coal industry is having major ramifications in communities and regions across the country that have been historically reliant upon this energy
A growing number of RDOs are looking at ways to better align the various plans they are required to do, resulting in more cohesive and
This report covers the rapidly-growing body of research on resilience, describing the main ideas that are driving policy and practice across the country and examining current thinking on regional and economic resilience.
Throughout the month of September, the NADO Research Foundation hosted a three-part webinar series that took a deeper dive into the recent revisions to EDA’s Comprehensive Economic Development
This website is home to capacity building materials developed by the NADO Research Foundation and its partners. It contains links to publications, webinars, workshop materials, and other information on community and economic development in small towns and rural regions.
Disaster can strike anywhere. In recent years, the country has experienced record floods in the Midwest, drought in the West, tornadoes and severe thunderstorms in
Regional Hazard Mitigation Planning: As we have seen time and time again, natural disasters do not obey local jurisdictional boundaries. When this fact is combined
Metropolitan and rural America are highly connected and interdependent. To succeed, metropolitan America needs a healthy and sustainable rural economy and culture, and in turn rural America needs vibrant, well-functioning cities and suburbs to thrive and flourish.