Practitioner Tools for Small Community Economic Development: A Community Success Story

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Practitioner Tools for Small Community
Economic Development A Community Success
Story

• Will Andresen
• Shawn Kaskie
• February 15, 2006

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Community and Economic Development
Preparedness Team
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Community and Economic Development
Preparedness Team
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• Everybody gets so much information all day long
  that they lose their common sense.
• - Gertrude Stein

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• If the only tool you own is a hammer, every
  problem begins to resemble a nail.
• - Abraham Maslow

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• Adapted From Nuendorf (1987) as cited in
  Community Economics Linking Theory and
  Practice Shaffer, Deller, Marcouiller 2004

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Building Blocks
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The Wheel
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Understanding the Situation

• Is there local interest?
• Who is Interested and Why?
• What is the History of the Situation?

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Analysis of Existing Capacity

• What Programs are Already Offered?
• Who Is Working in the Field?
• What is the History of those Involved?

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Framing Your Response

• Does it Fit Your Plan of Work?
• How Will You Measure Impact?
• What is Your Exit Strategy?

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Time for Action
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Understanding Your Community

• Understanding Your Demographics 
• Community Indicators IMPLAN Wis Stat Labor
  Market Information County Economic Profiles 
• Understanding Your Trade Area 
• Downtown and Business District Market
  AnalysisTrade Area AnalystLocation Quotient
  Calculator 
• How Others See You 
• First Impressions

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Understanding Your Community

• Understanding Your Demographics 
• Community Indicators IMPLAN Wis Stat Labor
  Market Information County Economic Profiles 
• Understanding Your Trade Area 
• Downtown and Business District Market
  AnalysisTrade Area AnalystLocation Quotient
  Calculator 
• How Others See You 
• First Impressions

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First Impressions(One Page Narrative)

• What is it?
• When Should it be Used?
• How is it Used?
• Who To Contact for More Information?
• - State Specialist
• - County Educator
• Direct Internet Link to Tool Site

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• Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
• - Sir Winston Churchill