Visioning 2026 Blog
Restructuring Economic Development Activities--The Case For Regional Economic Development
Mayor and City Council,
TEXAS MIDWEST Community Network
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR – Nicki Harle, 325-676-0329
Group of 20 counties, some with only 1,000 people.
Scott Millar, 828-267-1564
Trying to expand to 4 counties
Lynn Pitts, 912-447-8450
Land locked and having to expand into areas outside of community.
Greater Louisville Economic Development
http://www.greaterlouisville.com/ed/default.asp
Combating the big gorilla mentality
SEDC was formed in 1979 to help businesses start up or expand in a ten-county area of Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Our SBA 504 program is now available in the entire state of Iowa. We are a non-profit organization governed by a volunteer board of directors and staffed by seasoned loan professionals. We have loans of every size to fit your small business needs. Contact us anytime if you have questions or need assistance. The application deadline for all our programs is the first Wednesday of any month.
http://www.wkreda.com/Document.aspx?id=1012
wKREDA is a coalition of people in the 53 western Kansas counties who've decided to pool their resources, both human and financial, to work together for the common good of western Kansas. wKREDA's members maintain a collaborative affiliation with each other so that we are able to achieve both our individual, and our collective, rural development goals. The 1994 decision to create wKREDA started our unique and colorful history. Our innovative approach to challenges, and how we've made western Kansas open for business is published in our Genesis section.
Many Oklahoma communities are starting to recognize the value of regional partnerships. As of January 2008, there were 28 active regional partnerships across the state.
http://www.okcommerce.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=661&Itemid=571
Region’s economic action plan to build a brighter future for our cities, towns, villages and all of our residents.
http://www.advancenortheastohio.org/about
Florida's Heartland encompasses six South Central Florida Counties, has a land area of 5,000 square miles with a population of 250,000 living in 24 communities. Although each community is unique, broad-based support for economic progress is a constant, unifying theme. Florida's Heartland Rural Economic Development Initiative (FHREDI) provides regional economic development coordination to businesses interested in expanding or relocating to the area.
http://www.woodbury-ia.com/departments/economicdevelopment/
Woodbury County has the richest farmland in the world, is located within minutes to world-class art, entertainment and recreation centers, acts as a major transportation hub to the nation, and its cities exemplify the description: Traditional Values for Modern Communities.
The Columbia, Missouri Area, Regional Economic Development, Inc.
The Regional Development Corporation (RDC) is a private non-profit, 501 (c) 3, Economic Development Organization (EDO) whose primary service area is Northern New Mexico (NNM). The RDC assists Northern New Mexico communities and small businesses with economic development activities. We work with community leaders to address the increasingly rapid pace of technological, social and environmental change in NNM by assisting communities and industry in managing their economic projects and initiatives.
The mission of the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center is to develop, promote, and implement sound economic strategies to improve the quality of life of rural North Carolinians. The center serves the state's 85 rural counties, with a special focus on individuals with low to moderate incomes and communities with limited resources.
http://www.gredc.org/about/about.htm
The Georgia Rural Economic Development Center (GREDC), a Public/Private Partnership, is funded through the Intellectual Capital Partnership Program (ICAPP), the University System’s premier economic development program, and a significant donation from the private sector.
The Rural Business Revolving Loan Fund (Fund) is designed to improve the Concho Valley geographic area economy by providing “gap” financing for small, emerging private business enterprise that increases employment.
http://www.cvworkforce.org/prd/rlf.asp
http://www.nyecon.cornell.edu/research/rural.mgi
3 organizing principles: (1) Community-driven (2) Regionally-orientated (3) Entrepreneur-focused
http://www.uwex.edu/CES/cced/communities/documents/Series8.pdf
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/5776.html
http://www.gc21.de/ibt/en/site/rdm/ibt/xhtml/soe2_description.sxhtml
With this supra-regional programme InWEnt supports new, cross-sector approaches and concepts for a sustainable development of rural areas. In this context, the mobilisation of the endogenous development potentials by involving all relevant groups of stakeholders forms a core issue of all measures. Linking regional support policies with a participatory regional planning, local and regional economic development as well as new market-oriented and employment-oriented vocational training systems is the focal point of this innovative approach.
http://www.marbidco.org/home.html
http://www.intrd.gov.nl.ca/intrd/economicboards.htm
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