Building Disaster Resilient Economies Webinar

On January 26, 2012, NADO, in collaboration with EDA, IEDC, and the U.S. Chamber’s BCLC, hosted a webinar to provide preliminary guidance on the funding priorities and requirements for EDA’s Fiscal Year 2012 federal appropriations of $200 million for long-term disaster recovery. Communities in counties with major FEMA disaster designations in FY 2011 will be considered eligible under this opportunity.

The webinar also featured three case studies from Denny Coleman, Tish Hass Williams, and Janet Thigpen, and an overview of available post-disaster recovery resources from IEDC and RestoreYourEconomy.org.

Click Here to watch the entire presentation. (Windows Media Player)

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2010 NADO RDO Data Project

In August 2010, the NADO Research Foundation released a new report, 2010 NADO RDO Data Project (Preliminary Results) highlighting the various federal program designations and responsibilities of the nation’s 556 regional development organizations, including the network of 380 EDA Economic Development Districts.

The new document is part of an overall national review of the roles, responsibilities and capacity of RDOs related to pre-disaster economic preparedness planning as well as post-disaster economic recovery.  The research effort is funded by EDA’s Austin Regional Office in response to the devastating hurricanes, storms and natural disasters within its five-state region in 2008.