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Past Webinars

Webinar: Disaster Preparedness and Economic Resilience – Key Considerations for EDDs

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

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March 4, 2025 No Comments

Federal Grant Administration Webinar Series

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.

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November 1, 2024 No Comments

RLF 201 Workshop Recording

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.

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June 14, 2024 No Comments

New OMB Guidance: Briefing for RDOs (Webinar)

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. It also shows how your organization can confidently use them as you work with partners at the federal, state, and local levels.

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May 3, 2024 No Comments

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.

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June 26, 2024 No Comments

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.

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April 5, 2024 No Comments

[Webinar] Rural Housing Solutions

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

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February 7, 2024 No Comments

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