2024 Annual Report
We encourage you to review our Annual Report for a further look of the work our team, partners, and members helped accomplish in 2024.
April 16, 2025
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Annual Report
We encourage you to review our Annual Report for a further look of the work our team, partners, and members helped accomplish in 2023.
January 18, 2024
Mobile Workshops Feature Stories of Community Wealth Creation
NADO’s 2023 Annual Training Conference featured stories of equitable regional development and regional resilience. Two of these stories, both based in Cleveland, were offered through mobile workshops: the Evergreen Cooperative story and the Rid-All Green Partnerships story.
December 5, 2023
Solving the Housing Puzzle: EDDs as Regional Housing Changemakers
Read the one-page summary here (PDF). This housing research report is the first step for NADO Research Foundation staff and partners in showcasing the valuable
November 17, 2023
Moving the Needle Together: North Central Pennsylvania RPDC Data Dashboard
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.
September 28, 2023
Equity, Diversity, and Opportunity: Berkshire Regional Planning Commission CEDS Process
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
September 28, 2023
Equitable Transportation Access Solution: Bear River Association of Governments Mobility Voucher Program
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
September 28, 2023
Southeastern Utah Association of Local Governments: Self-Help Housing Program
Southeastern Utah Association of Local Governments’ Self-Help program is one of nine in Utah that utilizes the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Housing Service’s (RHS) Single Family Housing Mutual Self-Help Grants and Site Loans
September 28, 2023
Investing in Rural Downtowns: What Role are EDDs Playing?
This paper explores the content of the Thriving Downtowns investment playbook, translating the most meaningful content for EDDs, while showcasing how EDDs are playing roles in downtown revitalization in their regions.
January 19, 2024
Economic Development Districts and Military Installations: Partnerships for Future Planning and Community Cooperation
Military installations are crucial economic drivers in local economies across the country. No matter the service, location, or scale, military installations have an impact on the surrounding cities, counties, and regions that support them.
September 15, 2023