Presentations
This section contains slide presentations of content that would benefit our membership.
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EDA’s Streamlined Application Process
During the 2015 NADO Annual Training Conference, Angela Belden Martinez and Nathan Ohle of the U.S. Economic Development Administration reviewed proposed changes to streamline the agency’s grant application process. These changes are incorporated in the 2016 Federal Funding Opportunity...
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Transportation Safety: Moving the Nation Toward Zero Deaths
Although traffic fatalities have significantly decreased in recent decades, crashes are still responsible for causing over 32,000 deaths in the United States each year. This session contained applicable lessons from local, regional, and national-level efforts to decrease fatalities in this...
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Economic Gardening: A New Tool Heping Businesses Grow and Expand
During the 2015 NADO Annual Training Conference, attendees spent an afternoon learning about the concepts of Economic Gardening: a “grow from within” strategy that targets existing growth companies and helps them grow to the next level by providing vital...
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A Primer on OMB’s “Uniform Guidance” for Federal Awards
New Office of Management and Budget guidelines will impact every organization that receives U.S. federal grant funds. This presentation by Bob Lloyd of Robert Lloyd Consulting Services during the 2015 NADO Annual Training Conference walks through the major components of...
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Preparing for Your Annual Audit
During NADO’s 2015 Annual Training Conference, Bob Lloyd of Robert Lloyd Consulting Services delivered the presentation “Preparing for Your Annual Audit.” Your annual audit doesn’t have to be the most dreaded event of the year. Get a sense of...
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The Entrepreneurial RDO: Alternative Funding Strategies for Your Organization
During NADO’s 2015 Annual Training Conference, three presenters offered models of revenue diversification in the session “The Entrepreneurial RDO: Alternative Funding Strategies for Your Organization.” View the presentations below. Laura Mathis, Middle Georgia Regional Commission: Revenue Diversification from nado-web Ryan...
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Strengthening Your SWOT and Building Wealth
On Sunday, October 25 at the 2015 NADO Annual Training Conference, Barbara Wyckoff of Dynamica Consulting facilitated the workshop “Strengthening Your SWOT and Building Wealth.” The workshop introduced concepts of wealth creation as an economic development strategy and presented the...
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Materials Now Available from Business Continuity Workshop for Regional Economic Resilience
STRATEGIES FOR RESILIENT BUSINESSES: ENSURING A GOOD ECONOMY AFTER A BAD STORM BUSINESS CONTINUITY WORKSHOP FOR REGIONAL ECONOMIC RESILIENCY TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2015 In this interactive resilience exercise, facilitators led a discussion on best practices for preparing and recovering from...
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Opening Plenary: Collaboration to Improve and Integrate Transportation Decisionmaking
Attendees at the 2014 National Rural Transportation Conference heard about efforts to bring local officials and stakeholders together with state decisionmakers to deliver the best possible outcomes for access and mobility in communities in rural and small metro regions through...
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Materials Now Available from “Regional Economic Resilience and the CEDS” Workshop
On December 2, 2014, the NADO Research Foundation hosted “Regional Economic Resilience and the CEDS,” a half-day workshop for HUD Sustainable Communities grantees (http://portal NULL.hud NULL.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/hudprograms/sci) attending the 2014 HUD SCI Convening in Washington, DC. Staff from 14 grantee projects...