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The discussion focuses on how regional planning expertise can support partners seeking to translate childcare challenges into actionable economic evidence.
As part of the EDD CoP, the NADO Research Foundation and its partners offer a variety of virtual and in-person training opportunities for EDD staff and leadership. Below are links to webinar recordings, workshop and conference presentation materials, and other additional resources.
The discussion focuses on how regional planning expertise can support partners seeking to translate childcare challenges into actionable economic evidence.
This webinar, co-hosted by the Economic Development District Community of Practice and the Revolving Loan Fund Community of Practice, discusses practical considerations for RLF operators looking to integrate AI tools into their workflows.
This webinar explores how Economic Development Districts (EDDs) are tackling the social determinants of health to build stronger, more resilient communities.
This webinar series includes real-world examples, actionable tools, and fresh ideas for EDD staff and partners looking to spark economic growth, fill empty spaces, and support the next generation of entrepreneurs.
Through the Economic Development District Community of Practice, the NADO Research Foundation hosted a presentation from Brian Larkin, Director of the National Land Bank Network at the Center for Community Progress.
This webinar explores how municipalities can engage religious leaders, congregations, and developers to thoughtfully reimagine these properties. Whether repurposed for affordable housing, social services, the arts, or mixed-use community hubs, houses of worship can serve as powerful anchors for revitalization when guided by strategic collaboration.
This webinar features a highly engaging conversation about affordable housing cooperatives, how they work, and how they can be adapted to meet communities needs.
The NADO Research Foundation and Neighbor Works America partnered on this joint training opportunity to connect national networks of EDDs and Neighbor Works America affiliate organizations. Participants learned about ways these valuable economic and community development organizations can work together to address affordable housing in their regions.
Manufacturing and Regional Development The Manufacturing Community of Practice has released a new playbook for measuring regional collaboration on manufacturing sector development. This webinar, hosted
https://youtu.be/C33PFP2U1XE Economic Development Districts (EDDs) across the country are facing the challenge of quick turnover in their entry level positions. This is leading to gaps
This webinar with the International Sustainable Resilience Center (ISRC) and NADO Research Foundation explored how EDDs can best position their regions for disaster preparedness and economic resilience. You’ll hear about key strategies such as establishing information networks, identifying vulnerabilities, developing action plans, utilizing resilience tools, and much more
To assist RDOs in the transition to the revised rules, NADO is sponsoring a four-part webinar series that will provide detailed coverage of key aspects of the new policies. The series will be presented by Bob Lloyd, who has conducted dozens of NADO sponsored training programs and has provided extensive technical support on the numerous comments that NADO has submitted to OMB urging policy features that recognize the unique role that RDO’s play in many federal grant programs.
As part of the EDD CoP, the National Association of Regional Councils (NARC) hosted a webinar to highlight how informed planning and zoning decisions can revitalize business districts in urban, suburban, and small towns
The Upper Explorerland Regional Planning Commission (UERPC) has created a highly successful health and wellness program focused on enhancing the mental, physical, financial, and social well-being of its staff. This webinar with UERPC Executive Director Rachelle Howe covers actionable strategies to implement wellness initiatives and build healthier, more supportive workplaces for staff at EDDs.
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has released its long-awaited revision of the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (2 CFR 200). This webinar, hosted by the NADO Research Foundation and led by Bob Lloyd, covers the highlights of the revised policies which must be implemented by October 1, 2024. It also shows how your organization can confidently use them as you work with partners at the federal, state, and local levels.
Recipients and subrecipients of federal grants must follow revised policies contained in the Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles and Audit Requirements issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and codified in Title 2 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 200. Revisions to these requirements will be effective October 1, 2024. To assist RDOs in the transition to the revised rules, NADO sponsored a four-part webinar series that provided detailed coverage of key aspects of the new policies. The series was led by Bob Lloyd.
This webinar, organized by Grow America through the RLF Community of Practice and co-sponsored by the NADO Research Foundation, addressed the fundamentals of Revolving Loan Funds (RLFs), EDA’s RLF program, and how EDDs can leverage RLFs to support the communities they serve.
This webinar demonstrated how the National Economic Resilience Data Explorer (NERDE) and the Economic Development Capacity Index (EDCI) tools can be utilized to support your CEDS and other regional planning efforts.
The NADO Research Foundation co-hosted a webinar with the American Connection Corps (ACC) to demonstrate opportunities available to EDDs and other organization to host an ACC Member. This webinar explained how ACC Members can provide valuable resources and expertise to EDDs and included a testimonial from the Southeastern Indiana Regional Planning Commission which serves as an ACC host.
In support of the EDD CoP, the National Association of Regional Councils (NARC) hosted a webinar with Trent Frazier, Deputy Assistant Director for the Stakeholder Engagement Division of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). In the webinar, Frazier discussed what CISA resources and materials are available to EDDs.
This webinar highlighted how EDDs and other regional organizations can assist local communities to better participate in the growing global bioeconomy. It also featured information about the Bioeconomy Development Opportunity (BDO) Zone Initiative that enables economically distressed communities to powerfully leverage biomass assets to serve as anchors for revitalization.
The Economic Development District Community of Practice (EDD CoP) and the Revolving Loan Fund Community of Practice (RLF CoP) hosted the RLF 201 Workshop on Tuesday, June 11 at 2 p.m. ET. During the workshop, the presenters – Karen Lynch with EDA, Rick Hunsaker with Region XII Council of Governments, and Mary Louk with Grow America shared their best practices covering multiple topics relevant to RLF operators.
Effective CEDS should emphasize the identification, enrichment, and strategic deployment of workforce assets, focusing on job quality and inclusion. By demonstrating an ability to meet evolving workforce needs through data-supported arguments and targeted upskilling strategies, regions can attract and grow businesses and support workers, all while building regional wealth and fostering economic resilience and equity.
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. Bonita Robertson-Hardy, Co-Executive Director of the Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group, shared about how WealthWorks relates to the Thrive Rural framework and rural development hubs. Following the guided discussion, participants engaged in a conversation about the greater wealth creation community and what would be most useful to that community moving forward.
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.
Rural regions face specific and unique challenges in meeting their regional residents’ housing needs. Rural EDDs across the country are taking on key roles in addressing their region’s housing affordability and accessibility. From housing planning steps, grant writing and financing, all the way to housing development, EDDs are well-equipped to take on a specific-to-their-region role. View the recording of Rural Housing Solutions: EDDs as Regional Housing Changemakers webinar where you’ll hear from NADO First Vice President and Region XII Council of Governments Executive Director Rick Hunsaker and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Senior Community Planning and Development Specialist Erich Yost, who provided concrete examples of how EDDs can meet unmet housing needs in their regions.
In the spring of 2023, the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) designated its 400th Economic Development District (EDD) and also released updates to its Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) Content Guidelines.
With funding from the U.S. Economic Development Administration, Argonne National Laboratory’s National Economic Research and Resilience Center hosts the National Economic Resilience Data Explorer (NERDE) and the Economic Development Capacity Index (EDCI). NERDE consolidates information and data on economic distress, demographics, the existence and emergence of industry clusters, and COVID-19 impacts to local economies, while the EDCI uses publicly available data to assess critical elements that contribute to a county’s overall economic development capacity. This webinar provided an overview and live demonstration of these tools to show how they can be utilized to support your CEDS and other regional planning efforts.
This webinar discusses strategies for Economic Development Districts looking to engage (or re-engage) with Tribal Governments in the regions they serve. EDA’s Tribal Coordinator joins NADO, FNDI, and the Directors of three EDDs to discuss purpose, strategies, and successes in the space.
This webinar, hosted by the University Economic Development Association (UEDA), highlighted how two Minnesota EDDs have collaborated with the University of Minnesota Extension on the CEDS, technical assistance, and data analysis.
This webinar, conducted for the CEDS Peer Exchange Groups, was led by Alison Turner, Senior Economic Development Research at Argonne National Laboratory. Alison presented on how Argonne’s data tools can be used to inform and strengthen CEDS strategies.
In the second training of the NADO CEDS Peer Exchange Groups, Dell Gines, Chief Innovation Officer at the International Economic Development Council shared tips and tricks for how to use AI tools to support the development of the regional Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy.
The Manufacturing Community of Practice has released a new playbook for measuring regional collaboration on manufacturing sector development. This webinar, hosted by the EDD CoP, explores how EDDs can use this playbook to understand and expand their roles in regional manufacturing ecosystems.
This webinar with the International Sustainable Resilience Center (ISRC) and NADO Research Foundation explores how EDDs can best position their regions for disaster preparedness and economic resilience. You’ll hear about key strategies such as establishing information networks, identifying vulnerabilities, developing action plans, utilizing resilience tools, and much more.
This webinar with the NADO Research Foundation and StateBook highlighted how Economic Development Districts (EDDs) and other Regional Development Organizations (RDOs) can leverage data-driven insights to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters while building long-term economic resilience.
The Manufacturing Community of Practice has released a new playbook for measuring regional collaboration on manufacturing sector development. This webinar, hosted by the EDD CoP, explores how EDDs can use this playbook to understand and expand their roles in regional manufacturing ecosystems.
The NADO Research Foundation and Neighbor Works America partnered on this joint training opportunity to connect national networks of EDDs and Neighbor Works America affiliate organizations.
During this session at the 2023 NADO Washington Conference, EDA and EDD staff reflected on opportunities for collaboration, the latest updates on CEDS guidelines, and
This event in March 2023 brought together nearly 70 participants representing EDDs, the U.S. Economic Development Administration, EDA community of practice partners, and other national
The NADO Research Foundation and EDA Seattle Regional Office hosted an EDD Regional Roundtable in March 2023 that brought together EDD and EDA staff for
Several EDD CoP sessions were offered at this April 2023 conference, which convened staff from EDDs, Tribal Planning Grantees, University Centers, Revolving Loan Funds, and
Several EDD CoP sessions were offered at this May 2023 conference, which convened staff from EDDs, Tribal Planning Grantees, University Centers, Revolving Loan Funds, and
In August 2023, Economic Development Districts, tribes, and others gathered in the Dakotas and Minnesota to attend the kickoff meetings for the USDA-funded North Central Regional
Nearly 30 sessions at NADO’s 2023 Annual Training Conference in Cleveland, OH were offered through the EDD CoP, covering a range of topics important to EDD staff
This event in March 2024 brought together nearly 80 participants representing EDDs, federal partners, and other national organizations for an afternoon of networking, training, and
The first-ever EDD Wealth Creation Summit took place in Greenville, SC as part of the EDD CoP. Attendees from EDDs and partner organizations across the country participated
NADO’s 2024 Annual Training Conference in New Orleans, LA brought together nearly 600 regional development staff, board members, federal partners, and others for learning, networking, and exploring
NADO’s 2024 Annual Training Conference in New Orleans, LA brought together nearly 600 regional development staff, board members, federal partners, and others for learning, networking, and exploring projects throughout the region. Many sessions were planned and offered through the EDD CoP. Topics covered included resilience planning, workforce development, housing, aging, the CEDS, wealth creation strategies, and much more.
The first-ever EDD Wealth Creation Summit took place in Greenville, SC as part of the EDD CoP. Attendees from EDDs and partner organizations across the country participated in a mobile workshop, heard a keynote from an innovative cooperative manufacturing partnership, and attended panel and training sessions about a variety of wealth creation topics.
This event in March 2024 brought together nearly 80 participants representing EDDs, federal partners, and other national organizations for an afternoon of networking, training, and conversations that explored how best to incorporate data and metrics into the CEDS and other regional planning efforts.
Nearly 30 sessions at NADO’s 2023 Annual Training Conference in Cleveland, OH were offered through the EDD CoP, covering a range of topics important to EDD staff and partners. Below are links to a few featured sessions; click here to access all conference presentations.
– Making it Count: Achieving, Measuring and Reporting Results with Data Analysis
– Looking through the Lens of Wealth Creation: Doing Economic Development Differently
– RDO and Tribal Partnerships
– Equity and Inclusion Fundamentals
– CEDS Content Guidelines and Best Practices
In August 2023, Economic Development Districts, tribes, and others gathered in the Dakotas and Minnesota to attend the kickoff meetings for the USDA-funded North Central Regional Food Business Center led by Region Five Development Commission. Melissa Levy, NADO Regional Development Researcher and wealth creation specialist, designed and developed the trainings as a way to share the wealth creation framework with participants.
Several EDD CoP sessions were offered at this May 2023 conference, which convened staff from EDDs, Tribal Planning Grantees, University Centers, Revolving Loan Funds, and others engaged in economic development across the five-state EDA Austin region.
Several EDD CoP sessions were offered at this April 2023 conference, which convened staff from EDDs, Tribal Planning Grantees, University Centers, Revolving Loan Funds, and others engaged in economic development across the ten-state EDA Denver region.
The NADO Research Foundation and EDA Seattle Regional Office hosted an EDD Regional Roundtable in March 2023 that brought together EDD and EDA staff for training, networking, and sharing opportunities and challenges facing EDDs across the EDA Seattle region.
This event in March 2023 brought together nearly 70 participants representing EDDs, the U.S. Economic Development Administration, EDA community of practice partners, and other national organizations for an afternoon of networking, training, and conversations that explored how best to position EDDs for success in achieving regional economic development and resilience.
During this session at the 2023 NADO Washington Conference, EDA and EDD staff reflected on opportunities for collaboration, the latest updates on CEDS guidelines, and how EDDs can effectively engage with an array of federal partners and programs.