B usiness Facilities 2025 Economic Development Organization (EDO) Awards recognize economic developers’ efforts toward growing their communities. Record-breaking projects and creating new pockets of ...

On Oct. 20-21, Institute for Social Transformation faculty fellow Chris Benner and staff members Azucena Beltran, Erika Katske, Darío León, Gabriella Alvarez, and Jessica de la Cruz led an event in ...

The U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) is now accepting applications for the new $200 million Distressed Area Recompete Pilot Program. The newly created program hopes to turn the economic ...

The city of Elk Grove was recently recognized by the International Economic Development Council for its startup program that assists businesses with grants. Elk Grove’s Office of Economic Development ...

Former professor Dr. David Birch of MIT found that up to 80% of job growth in any community is generated by the businesses already located there and not by attraction efforts. Economic development in ...

Community and local development (CLD) programs empower communities to lead local development processes through control over planning decisions, fund management, and project implementation. Experience ...

Economic development activities can deliver broad value to communities, driving business growth, attracting investment and creating a foundation for prosperity, a point reinforced by the results of a ...

Spend any time around a state capitol and you will hear the phrase “economic development” about once every 10 minutes. This makes sense. Every program that politicians want to institute has to be ...

The University of Central Arkansas Center for Community and Economic Development has selected 25 Northwest Arkansas leaders ...

Michigan is once again at a crossroads on economic development policy. Only three years after its creation, the SOAR program — intended to provide large cash grants to attract major factories — has ...