This resource provides a background for EDD staff about the workforce development ecosystem and how EDDs can better coordinate workforce and economic development programs that can lead to greater regional prosperity and resilience.
A new brief from NADO RF highlights creative and meaningful ways EDD executive directors have managed hiring and staffing at their organizations. It offers recommendations for how EDDs can build and nurture a team of individuals that are dedicated and passionate about making a long-term difference at their organizations and throughout their regions.
This 15-minute video tutorial and accompanying brief shares ideas for how EDDs can best incorporate workforce development and upskilling strategies into the CEDS process and document. Topics include: Workforce Development as Infrastructure; Data-Driven and Targeted Upskilling; and Holistic and Inclusive Economic Strategies
Key lessons can be learned from how Economic Development Districts (EDDs) have convened, adapted, and reacted to BRAC closure actions in their communities and local military installations. This case study will feature South Plains Association of Governments (SPAG) in west Texas and their valuable work redeveloping Reese Air Force Base outside of Lubbock, TX.
Economic Development Districts (EDDs) working together across regional boundaries can use federal and state investments to drive transformative economic impact across their regions. Rural regional organizations may have limited staff capacity on their own, but when partnered with other EDDs, these coalitions can have an outsized economic impact on their regions.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, hybrid work and work-from-home have become permanent fixtures. With proper programing and infrastructure support, EDDs can leverage this trend to maintain current residency figures and attract new residents. In this EDD CoP tip sheet, NADO looks at the research done by the Ohio University Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Services in partnership with the Buckeye Hills Regional Council to identify tips for EDDs across the country.
Economic Development Districts (EDDs) can use in-house community and economic development planning experience to provide localized recommendations and strategies for their member communities as these communities take on affordable housing challenges. View this case study to learn more.
The North Central Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission created the North Central Data Dashboard, an online Dashboard that everyone in the region can use to track efforts to further regional economic development progress.
To ensure that equity was woven into the very framework of its CEDS, the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission in Massachusetts approached the process with a People-Community-Economy framework. The framework centers people as the agents and beneficiaries of economic development work, recognizing that it is individuals who form communities and build economies
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