Economic Development Strategies

The look and composition of your community changes whether you plan for it to or not. Do you want a say in how your community grows or are you willing to leave it up to chance that the companies you want will move to the location you want them to and pay the wages and benefits your residents need? Do you want to keep employers that have been providing jobs to your residents for years?

With a strategy in place, if done correctly, you know what your community values. This will allow you to move forward and achieve the type of growth that makes sense to your community and is sustainable.

What a Strategy Can Do for You:

• Provides Direction: What industries do we target?
• Sets Overall Framework: How will we target them?
• Links Future to Present: How will we recognize success?
• Builds Consensus: Getting everyone with the program.
• Foundation for Change: What are our first steps?
• Action vs. Reaction: We are in charge of our fate.
• Helps Focus on the Right Things: Spending resources wisely.

If you would like to view economic development strategies or put out an RFP/RFQ to our consultant list for your economic development strategy, please contact Kristy Nong at mknong@caled.org