Featured Resources
-
Webinar Recording & Slides: NADO Webinar on USDA’s Strategic Economic and Community Development Program and How Rural Communities Can Apply
On January 12, the National Association of Development Organizations in partnership with U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development (http://www NULL.rd NULL.usda NULL.gov/) (USDA-RD) hosted an informational webinar on USDA’s new Strategic Economic and Community Development (SECD) program. Established under the...
-
Planning for a More Resilient Future: A Guide to Regional Approaches
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.
-
Webinar Recording & Slides: “September with the CEDS Series: Planning More Efficiently & Effectively – Aligning the CEDS with Other Regional Plans”
On September 10, the NADO Research Foundation hosted the first installment of our three-part webinar series “September with the CEDS: Better Resilience through Better Planning” that takes a deeper dive into the recent revisions to EDA’s Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy...
-
Join Us for the “September with the CEDS” Webinar Series
This September, join the NADO Research Foundation for a three-part webinar series that will take a deeper dive into the recent revisions to EDA’s Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) Content Guidelines (http://www NULL.eda NULL.gov/ceds/). The Guidelines suggest how to develop...
-
Announcing the 2015 NADO Photo Contest!
[Update: Voting is now closed. Winners will be announced in mid-October!] The National Association of Development Organizations is pleased to launch the 2015 NADO Photo Contest, taking place August 17 – September 22, 2015. The contest will be an opportunity...
-
Online Resource: Planning for Prosperity in Small Towns and Rural Regions
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.
-
Regional Approaches to Resilience: A Tour of Resilience Work Around the Country
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 the Southeast, wildfires in the Southwest, and blizzards in the Northeast. In 2011 alone, the...
-
Issue Brief: Creating Opportunity and Prosperity Through Strengthening Rural-Urban Connections
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.
-
Materials Available from “Making Resilience the New Normal” Convening (Washington, DC)
Across the country, local and regional agencies are finding new ways of building resilience through their day-to-day decisions. By applying a new lens to not only disaster recovery but also to planning, zoning, capital investment, lending, and other routine services,...
-
Materials Available from HUD Western Rural Grantee Gathering (Billings, MT)
On May 5-6, around 50 participants met in Billings, Montana for the “Sustainable Communities Initiative Western Rural Grantee Gathering,” organized by the Minnesota Housing Partnership (http://www NULL.mhponline NULL.org/) and the NADO Research Foundation through the Sustainable Communities Learning Network (http://sclearningnetwork...