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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...

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...

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...

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...

Aug 4, 20164 min read

The Silly Season is Upon Us…Again

Thanks to Ian Scott at ACCE, I recently read an article whose premise was hauntingly familiar: see Corporations and Politics: Shunning...

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...

Oct 29, 20143 min read

The Silly Season is Upon Us!

I’m not talking about the upcoming inaugural College Football Playoffs, although that is pretty silly right now! I’m talking about the...

May 15, 20132 min read

What Are You Doing About the Evolving Workforce?

It was a complete coincidence that I found myself reading three totally independent items discussing this countries evolving workforce...