Tip Sheet: How to Map a Wealth Creation Value Chain
This tip sheet is meant for organizations interested in mapping out value chains around specific market opportunities.
November 7, 2025
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Webinar Recording: Innovative Approaches by EDDs to Address Social Determinants of Health
This webinar explores how Economic Development Districts (EDDs) are tackling the social determinants of health to build stronger, more resilient communities.
September 25, 2025
Building Healthier Rural Communities: Economic Development Districts Address Social Determinants of Health
This report explores the social determinants of health and provides examples of how Economic Development Districts (EDDs) are addressing these factors in their regions.
August 21, 2025
Wealth Creation EDD Learning Cohort
The NADO Research Foundation is pleased to announce applications are open for the 7-month EDD Wealth Creation Learning Cohort, a new pilot program offered through the Economic Development District Community of Practice (EDD CoP). Join with other EDD staff interested in integrating wealth creation into their regions.
July 24, 2025
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
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