
2025 Impact Award Recipients
The annual Impact Awards program honors NADO members for their creative approaches to advancing regional economic development and improving quality of life.

The annual Impact Awards program honors NADO members for their creative approaches to advancing regional economic development and improving quality of life.

The United States is experiencing rapid population aging, which is reshaping regional labor markets, healthcare demands, consumer spending patterns, housing needs, and public services. Economic Development Districts (EDDs) can play a critical role in addressing these challenges and enabling older adults to age in place. This report explores the various regional impacts of population aging, as well as the roles that EDDs can and have filled to ensure people and economies are able to thrive.

Beginning in late 2017, the NADO Research Foundation and project partners Small Urban, Rural, and Tribal Center on Mobility (a consortium led by the Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University) and the National Rural Transit Assistance Program conducted technical assistance related to rural transportation and rural development with support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development. USDA is an equal opportunity provider.

Call for Nominations: RPO America Council of Peers NADO is currently ramping up its transportation programs and initiatives to better serve the needs of rural

The Bear River Association of Governments’ Mobility Voucher Program in Utah allows qualifying participants to submit vouchers reimbursing friends and family for giving them rides to access healthcare, shopping, and other needs

The annual Impact Awards program honors NADO members for their creative approaches to advancing regional economic development and improving quality of life.

2023 Excellence in Regional Transportation Award Recipients NADO and RPO America are pleased to announce the 2023 Excellence in Regional Transportation Awards. The awards program

This webinar provided an overview and live demonstration of the NERDE and EDCI tools from Argonne National Laboratory to show how they can be utilized to support your CEDS and other regional planning efforts.