Community Economic Development

U S Domestic – Solve Problems of Community Distress - in - Rust Belt, Farm Belt, Appalachia, Small Towns, Mining Towns, Inner Cities, 

- Advise, and work with local, county, state government, labor unions, chambers of commerce, trade associations, religious and community groups, - - - to - create and implement revitalization strategies.
- Advise, on corporate social responsibility and community relations  offices  - on viable approaches to produce job creation and diversified economic growth.

Where jobs have gone  -plants, mines, and mills, have closed - 

- Advice and strategy to stimulate investment, business growth, new jobs.
Where stores and office buildings are boarded up  - - - Consult to civic leaders, and their allies, to find public and private investors to create  new economic vitality in communities where chronic distress has reached the stage of permanent contraction. 
- Identify overlooked potential for new businesses, and find external sources to  fund new projects.  - - - And help implement, and solve the problem.

Consulting to - -

- Communities  in economic distress - helping them conceive, create, plan, implement and manage economic development,  reinvestment,

business and job creating programs.

- State,  county,  and local governments  -  helping them generate investment in  chronically destitute towns.

- Corporations,  chambers of commerce,  and trade associations  - that have tarnished or poor reputations,  and little or no social engagement,  helping them create robust, proactive  CSR programs.

- Banks and other financial institutions -  that want a better approach to CRA initiatives.

- Foundations - that want to focus and provide disciplined capital  for community uplift

- NGOs - that want to create new partnerships, and strengthen and expand their proven programs .

- Labor unions - that want to step up their social and community engagement, and find new ways to pursue their basic missions.