**The RDG Process – How We Build Organizations that Build Communities**
By RDG CEO Clint Nessmith There are many individuals in the economic development and Chamber industry who have never worked with a...
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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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Matthew Chambers
Apr 92 min read
Maximizing Productivity and Efficiency in Fundraising
By RDG COO Matt Chambers Fundraising, whether via memberships and sponsorships or special funds/campaigns, is a critical component in the...
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Doug Radcliff
May 18, 20215 min read
POSITIONED TO WIN: How can communities organize to pursue federal funds and just about anything?
By RDG Director of Innovation and Global Research Doug Radcliff As a result of the ongoing pandemic, we know governments at all levels...
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Beth Pulliam
Dec 29, 20203 min read
RDG and Bloomberg Collaborate on Economic Recovery.
This post zooms out from RDG’s bread and butter of fundraising campaign management and focuses on our consulting skillset, specifically...
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Rob Radcliff
Dec 10, 20201 min read
Tactical Guide: Municipal Economic Development Funding
In collaboration with Bloomberg Associates, a part of Michael Bloombergs’ Bloomberg Philanthropies, RDG developed a Municipal Funding...
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Clint Nessmith
Aug 17, 20202 min read
YES, you can successfully raise money right now!
This is the answer to the question we fundraising consultants are most asked in 2020. It's a great question! After all, back in April we...
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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
Dec 20, 20153 min read
Regionalism and the Retirement of Pat Danahy
Principal and Co-Owner Clint Nessmith provides our blog for this edition of RDG Interactive. I was recently at Pat Danahy’s retirement...
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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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