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Equity-Driven Implementation: Insights from the Baltimore Region

by Mishka Parkins

Ensuring equity and inclusion during implementation is as vital as integrating them into planning. The Greater Baltimore Committee’s All In 2035 plan, prepared with guidance from TIP Strategies, highlights practices for maintaining a focus on inclusivity, including engaging diverse stakeholders, establishing measurable goals, and fostering transparency and accountability. The organization’s approach offers a model for creating long-term, equitable growth.

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Global Connections, Local Impact: Harnessing International Partnerships

by Victoria Wilson

In a globalized economy, international partnerships are essential for cities to thrive. In her latest post, Victoria Wilson explores how fostering connections with universities, businesses, and cultural organizations drives economic growth, innovation, and resilience. By integrating international relationships into cohesive strategies, cities can transform these ties into actionable benefits, ensuring implementation success in today’s dynamic global landscape.

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Tracking Active Transportation Improvements with GIS

by Reece Neathery

Transparent and well-documented implementation is key to the success of long-term planning efforts. GIS is an especially effective tool for tracking specific, place-based projects, including infrastructure and mobility improvements. Regional organizations and governments in places like Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, and Seattle are using GIS maps to enhance accountability and ensure stakeholders can see tangible progress across multiple plans and agencies.

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Accessible Innovation Capital: SBIR & STTR Programs

by Erica Colston

When it comes to improving a community’s innovation assets, economic development practitioners can do only so much to influence postsecondary science and engineering programs or to increase the presence of venture capital firms. Supporting R&D-focused small businesses through the process of accessing federal SBIR/STTR dollars is a strategy that fits squarely within the realm of business and economic development.

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Sustainability and Economic Development as Mutually Reinforcing Priorities

by Mishka Parkins

Faced with unprecedented environmental challenges, the integration of climate sustainability into economic development planning has increased in urgency for many practitioners. As part of TIP’s work with the City of San Luis Obispo, California, Mishka Parkins gained a first-hand perspective on how this integration can be accomplished and the opportunities a sustainability focus can create.

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Field Notes: Delivering Results in Greater Fort Wayne

by Luke Shuffield

In February 2020, TIP was engaged by Greater Fort Wayne, Inc., to create Allen County Together (ACT), a 10-year economic development strategic plan for Fort Wayne-Allen County, Indiana. We recently followed up with Ellen Cutter, the organization’s Chief Economic Development Officer, to check on progress to date on ACT and learn more about the region’s innovation initiatives.

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Field Notes: Creating a Collaborative Framework for Implementation

by Alexis Angelo

Recognizing the resources required to holistically implement its new strategic plan, the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation (AEDC) has taken collaboration and coordination to heart. In addition to integrating the plan’s four pillars and related visualizations into their website, AEDC has created cross-sector working groups to move each pillar forward.

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Field Notes: Building Consensus in CEDS Planning

by Elizabeth Scott

As the lead on Central Indiana’s comprehensive economic development strategy, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Planning Organization started laying the groundwork early. By having one-on-one conversations with a broad cross-section of leaders, organizations, and elected officials, even before the planning process began, the IMPO was able to build consensus and weave the region’s core values throughout the plan.

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Developing an Economic Sustainability Plan

by Jenn Todd-Goynes, CNU-A

Communities rarely embark on sustainability planning efforts under the auspices of economic development initiatives, which is a missed opportunity to impact a community’s industries, environment, and economic resilience. In a recent ED Now article, Jenn Todd-Goynes outlines critical questions to guide the process for an economic sustainability plan. The article is reposted here courtesy of the International Economic Development Council.

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Making the Way for Inclusive Economic Growth

by Mishka Parkins

TIP’s ongoing work with the International Economic Development Council as part of its Equitable Economic Development Playbook Initiative highlights the pivotal role economic developers can play in addressing economic inequality. Mishka Parkins’s post describes the Equity Action Plans created by the five organizations that participated in the initiative’s 2022 cohort.

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