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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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