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
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
Regional development organizations are using local and regional resilience workshops to identify community climate and economic resilience needs, connect local leaders with funding opportunities, and create action plans for future sustainable growth. This new NADO resource provides a walk through of how organizations can bring these resilience workshops to their own regions. Topics covered include workshop goalsetting, stakeholder engagement, and post-workshop implementation, evaluation, and follow-up.
WEBINAR Rural Housing Solutions: EDDs as Regional Housing Changemakers https://youtu.be/7SN_Cpy5Cdk Rural regions face specific and unique challenges in meeting their regional residents’ housing needs. Rural
During this webinar, EDD staff and federal partners discuss opportunities and best practice to integrate CEDS and hazard mitigation plans in an effort to make regions more resilient and responsive to hazardous events.
The Elevating Equity in Economic Development resource is presented as an online interactive toolkit and a downloadable pdf guide.
The NADO Research Foundation and EDA Seattle Regional Office hosted an EDD Regional Roundtable that brought together EDD and EDA Seattle staff for training, networking, and sharing opportunities and challenges facing EDDs across the EDA Seattle region
The NADO Research Foundation hosted “An Afternoon with the Districts” in March 2024 as part of its Economic Development District Community of Practice. This event brought together nearly 80 participants for an afternoon of networking and data and metrics training
The NADO Research Foundation hosted “An Afternoon with the Districts” in March 2023 as part of its Economic Development District Community of Practice. This event brought together nearly 70 participants for an afternoon of networking and training
During this session at the 2023 NADO Washington Conference, EDA and EDD staff reflected on opportunities for collaboration, discussed the latest updates on CEDS guidelines, and shared how EDDs can effectively engage with an array of federal partners and programs