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By RDG Director of Innovation and Global Research Doug Radcliff "One of the fundamental questions that should always be addressed in a...

By RDG Principal Amy Curtis “All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.”...

By RDG Director of Innovation and Global Research Doug Radcliff “The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people,...

By RDG CEO Clint Nessmith “No one is an island. All these entities that drive economic development are interconnected in one sense or...

By RDG Director of Innovation and Global Research Doug Radcliff “Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're...

By: RDG CEO Clint Nessmith “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the...

By: RDG Director of Innovation and Global Research Doug Radcliff “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can...

By RDG Senior Counsel Rob Radcliff “If you always do what you’ve always done, you will always get what you’ve always got” -Henry Ford...

By RDG Senior Counsel Rob Radcliff “If you always do what you’ve always done, you will always get what you’ve always got” -Henry Ford At...

By RDG Senior Counsel Rob Radcliff “If you always do what you’ve always done, you will always get what you’ve always got” -Henry Ford...

By: RDG CEO Clint Nessmith “If you always do what you’ve always done, you will always get what you’ve always got” -Henry Ford If you are...

By: RDG Senior Counsel Rob Radcliff What a roller coaster we have been on the past few years. I’ve been thinking a lot about 2022 and...

By: RDG Principal Lindsay Bensko Bright lights, big music city, welcome to Nashville! Home to the 2021 IEDC Annual Conference, and it did...

By RDG Director of Innovation and Global Research Doug Radcliff As a result of the ongoing pandemic, we know governments at all levels...

By RDG Principal Clint Nessmith I hope all our readers are doing well! With mass-vaccinations occurring (my arm was incredibly sore!) I...

A Revolutionary Pivot or an Unscalable Experiment? By RDG Principal Matthew Chambers Only have ten seconds? The pandemic continues to...

RDG's INTERVIEW SERIES A Conversation with Dr. Anna Lebesch about Talent Development By RDG Principal Clint Nessmith Resource Development...

This post zooms out from RDG’s bread and butter of fundraising campaign management and focuses on our consulting skillset, specifically...

In collaboration with Bloomberg Associates, a part of Michael Bloombergs’ Bloomberg Philanthropies, RDG developed a Municipal Funding...

By: RDG Managing Principal Rob Radcliff I've known Jay Garner of Garner Economics for decades.  Over that period of time I have learned...