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Author: Rick Kiernan

12 Mar

Posted at 13:11h in Capital Campaign, Chamber of Commerce, Community Engagement, Economic Development, Feasibility Study, Fundraising, Outcomes, Results, Results: Arts & Culture, Results: Athletics, Parks, & Recreation, Results: Chambers of Commerce, Results: Economic Development, Results: Education & Research, Results: Environmental & Animal Services, Results: Foundations & Public Benefit, Results: Health Services, Results: Housing & Shelter, Results: Human Services by

Creative Economic Development Consulting CEO Crystal Morphis and I met about seven years ago when we both worked on the Greenwood Partnership Alliance with Crystal providing the strategic plan, and Convergent coming in to test and fundraise for it. Getting to know this intelligent, strategic...

18 Oct

Posted at 16:39h in Capital Campaign, Community Engagement, Economic Development, Fundraising, Results: Economic Development, Results: Education & Research by

This article was originally written for and published in the International Economic Development Council’s “ED Now” newsletter. We are excited to make it available to non-IEDC members here for the first time. There were 5.8 million job openings across the United States at the end of April, according...

18 Sep

Posted at 17:25h in Conferences, Economic Development, Results: Economic Development by

This year's Northeastern Economic Developers Association’s Annual Conference proved to be another success! More than 150 economic development professionals converged on Syracuse to learn and to share their best practices as it related to this year’s theme, “Re-Think, Re-Vive, Re-Thrive…Leveraging the Assets of Our Communities.”...

09 Jul

Posted at 16:26h in Convergent Updates, Economic Development, Results: Chambers of Commerce, Results: Economic Development by

New IOM graduates, pictured left to right: Larkin Simpson, IOM, Chamber Director & Project Manager, Jones County Chamber of Commerce (MS); April Bragg, IOM, President & CEO, Milledgeville­Baldwin County Chamber (GA); Brian Tucker, IOM, Director of Economic Development, Georgetown County Economic Development (SC); Lindsay Frilling,...