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How do Communities Recover from Natural Disasters and What is the Chambers’ Role?

Oct 303 min read

How do Communities Recover from Natural Disasters and What is the Chambers’ Role?

By RDG Director of Innovation and Research Doug Radcliff My hometown in the United States, Hendersonville, North Carolina, was recently...

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Ellie Dunavant

Sep 175 min read

CLIENT PROFILE: Central Virginia Partnership for Economic Development

Profiles in Leadership: Helen Cauthen By RDG Principal Ellie Dunavant Resource Development Group (RDG) recently completed a successful...

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Making a List. Checking it Twice. Is Your Market on the Naughty or Nice List?

Brent Jonas

Dec 18, 20232 min read

Making a List. Checking it Twice. Is Your Market on the Naughty or Nice List?

By RDG Principal Brent Jonas Some regions stand out as beacons of growth and prosperity, embodying vibrant economies that attract...

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Amy Curtis

Oct 16, 20233 min read

CLIENT PROFILE: Greater Portland Inc - Monique Claiborne: Profiles in Leadership

By RDG Principal Amy Curtis RDG started working with Monique Claiborne and Greater Portland Inc in 2022. This engagement included both a...

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Amy Curtis

Aug 9, 20236 min read

CLIENT PROFILE: REDI Cincinnati - Kimm Lauterbach: Profiles in Leadership

By RDG Principal Amy Curtis “Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development.” -Kevin...

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How Should Economic Development Organizations Measure True Impact?

Doug Radcliff

Dec 8, 20223 min read

How Should Economic Development Organizations Measure True Impact?

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

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Rob Radcliff

May 4, 20203 min read

WHY DOESN’T CONGRESS LIKE THE 501(c)6?

If your corporate structure happens to be as a 501(c)6, that headline probably got your attention. In a recent POLL RDG conducted, 70% of...

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Funding Your Work In Uncertain Times – Part Two!

Rob Radcliff

Apr 14, 20203 min read

Funding Your Work In Uncertain Times – Part Two!

First off, I hope everyone is healthy and safe right now. This is an uncertain time for us all and the most important thing we can do is...

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Rob Radcliff

Apr 1, 20202 min read

Funding Your Work In Uncertain Times

As EDOs look to their budgets over the next few months, determining the proper course of action will be challenging to say the least. We...

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Planning Now Translates To Future Fundraising Success

Clint Nessmith

Dec 13, 20183 min read

Planning Now Translates To Future Fundraising Success

A few months ago, I had the pleasure of joining a panel at IEDC’s Annual Conference in Atlanta where my role was to speak about the...

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Rob Radcliff

Jul 13, 20162 min read

Stumped…

I had a rather disturbing conversation with the CEO of a major corporation this past week that sits on the board of one of our clients....

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Rob Radcliff

Jan 5, 20161 min read

How Do We Tell Our Story?

One of the biggest challenges for EDO’s is telling their story in a succinct, clear and compelling way. Not the story of the community or...

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Does The Rising Tide Really Lift Everyone’s Boat?

Rob Radcliff

Jan 1, 20162 min read

Does The Rising Tide Really Lift Everyone’s Boat?

I read an article in our local paper a few weeks ago that really stuck with me. It chronicled the dramatic disparity in relative...

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Big Things Come In Small Packages: Small Markets CAN Compete In The Big Leagues

Rob Radcliff

Dec 28, 20153 min read

Big Things Come In Small Packages: Small Markets CAN Compete In The Big Leagues

RDG does a lot of work in major metros across the United States. In fact, of the 48 metros of 1 million population or higher with a...

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Rob Radcliff

Sep 29, 20143 min read

Tell the Story or Change the Story?

I just finished reading How Money Walks: How $2 Trillion Moved Between the States and Why It Matters by Travis Brown. It traces the...

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Rob Radcliff

Jun 10, 20142 min read

Secretariat Was Fast…..

As one of the top three thoroughbreds of all time, Secretariat was in a class by himself. In fact, no other horse has ever run 1 1/2...

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Clint Nessmith

Apr 30, 20142 min read

Building Blocks

Let’s face it. Unless you are one of the lucky few organizations with more money than you know what to do with, there never seems to be...

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Rob Radcliff

Feb 13, 20143 min read

Investor Relations: What Am I Missing?

This is an age-old question asked by many Chamber and EDO CEO’s when their investors tell them they are “cutting back”, “dropping out” or...

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Rob Radcliff

Sep 3, 20132 min read

Leadership Trumps All…

Recently I was meeting with the board of a prospective client and was asked the following question: what is the one thing that makes the...

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Transformational Benchmarks: Re-Defining Metrics for EDOs

Rob Radcliff

Aug 21, 20133 min read

Transformational Benchmarks: Re-Defining Metrics for EDOs

Today, Mark Spandle recaps the ACCE Conference Workshop on Economic Development Metrics presented by Mac Holladay of Market Street...

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Welcome to the RDG Blog! Your go-to source for all economic development fundraising related matters.

Welcome to the RDG Blog!
Your go-to source for all economic development fundraising related matters.