Economic development district and university center alliances are a must going forward, since each can add value to the other’s effort and work. This link KARDOConcept is a PDF that highlights the talking points presented at this year’s NADO conference in Denver running from July 31st to August 3rd.
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NADO Presentation
Economic development district and university center alliances are a must going forward, since each can add value to the other’s effort and work. This link KARDOConcept is a PDF that highlights the talking points presented at this year’s NADO conference in Denver running from July 31st to August 3rd.
Patty Richardson
Regional and rural development lost one of its voices this past weekend with the death of Patty Richardson, former executive director of Great Plains Development, Inc. (GPDI) in Dodge City. At the height of her career Patty was instrumental in making sure GPDI packaged and delivered the best loans possible in support of small business devel [...]
Identifying the Larger Community
Regional planning traditionally has focused on land use and how to best develop and organize multi-jurisdictional space in order to meet anticipated human demand or need within the confines of a defined geography. In most cases the primary focus has been on hard infrastructure within the focus area, be that roads, streets, highways and bri [...]
Membership Begins to “BrandR...
On January 26, 2016 members met in Salina to discuss the “branding” of KARDO. Included was a review of a telephone survey involving the organization’s members and partners conducted by The Austin Peters Group as a means of determining just how those involved viewed KARDO. Beth Tatarko, Vice-President of The Austin Peter [...]
Farmers and Rural Kansas Communities
The most recent issue of the Journal of Rural and Community Development, published by the Rural Development Institute (RDI) at Brandon University, hosts an article written by Stacey Swearingen White at KU. In the article, she describes her research involving farmers across the state and their perception of local community needs. White fou [...]
Information Resources Unique to Kansa...
The Institute for Policy and Social Research (IPSR) at KU has produced a data portal that can be used by regional organizations across Kansas in their evaluation of changes that may have an impact on local and regional planning. Other states (e.g., Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska) have taken an interest in this information source and have asked [...]
Regional Economic Analysis Tools
When preparing regional economic plans, tools that help structure data for evaluation are always helpful. Two of the more common and useful tools are shift-share analysis (SS) and location quotient (LQ) analysis. The first tool enables planners to determine where change in any one location’s demographics, employment and/or income stre [...]
KARDO Receives Rural Business Enterpr...
USDA Rural Development recently announced KARDO has been awarded $117,000 in the form of an Rural Business Enterprise Grant (RBEG). This was done in support of KARDO’s proposal to produce and implement a series of workshops designed to benefit emerging and existing small businesses in 25 targeted counties. The workshops will occur ov [...]
