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Community & Economic Development
Community development is a term that generally connotes an area’s success toward meeting objectives that are commonly agreed to be fundamental imperatives for long term community health. Examples of these imperatives include safe and affordable housing, dependable infrastructure, an excellent workforce, diversified job opportunities, a vibrant downtown, services to senior citizens, good public transportation, rapid access to excellent heath care, clean water and air.
Most communities rank their economic health second only to the personal health and safety of their citizens. Economic development is multi-dimensioned, and exists only by successfully linking countless requisite factors – education, workforce, investment capital, physical infrastructure . .. and all the rest.
Since 1965 the Southwestern Commission has labored to insure the availability and quality of several critical economic health requisites by assisting our member units with their efforts to improve their community assets and overall amenity profiles. We have packaged financing for libraries, airports, water and sewer systems, information and communication technologies, and numerous other community development initiatives.
2011 National Association of Development Organizations Report: Regional Approaches to Sustainable Development, Linking Economic, Transportation, and Environmental Infrastructure in Rural and Small Metropolitan America
Community development is a term that generally connotes an area’s success toward meeting objectives that are commonly agreed to be fundamental imperatives for long term community health. Examples of these imperatives include safe and affordable housing, dependable infrastructure, an excellent workforce, diversified job opportunities, a vibrant downtown, services to senior citizens, good public transportation, rapid access to excellent heath care, clean water and air.
Most communities rank their economic health second only to the personal health and safety of their citizens. Economic development is multi-dimensioned, and exists only by successfully linking countless requisite factors – education, workforce, investment capital, physical infrastructure . .. and all the rest.
Since 1965 the Southwestern Commission has labored to insure the availability and quality of several critical economic health requisites by assisting our member units with their efforts to improve their community assets and overall amenity profiles. We have packaged financing for libraries, airports, water and sewer systems, information and communication technologies, and numerous other community development initiatives.
2011 National Association of Development Organizations Report: Regional Approaches to Sustainable Development, Linking Economic, Transportation, and Environmental Infrastructure in Rural and Small Metropolitan America