Organization type

Why interested in economic development?

General Activities

Economic Contribution

Contributions they could make

Alliance for Regional Stewardship

Maximize the family experience

Do what it takes

Planning and Organization

Get started

Attorneys

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Assistance in mergers and acquisitions of companies and technology.

Contribute time and money to the ARS

Banks

Loans up. Failures down

Loans and other banking services

Loans, Loan guarantees

Contribute time and money to the ARS

Business consultants

The need for progress results in more business opportunities

Contribute time and money to the ARS

Business Organizations

The need for progress results in a need for better business cooperation

Economic development drives the commerce engine

Contribute time and money, and endorsement to the ARS

City government

More sales tax from retail sales. More property tax through property appreciation.

Better and more jobs mean more money to spend resulting in more sales tax and higher property tax.

More income results in more and better service to the public.

Local government may neglect exporting companies because there is not sales tax except as the employees purchase items.

Police, fire, social services, community maintenance, rules of life.

Take care not to neglect the cash-producing companies.

County government

Tax base improvement

Catalyst to unite cities and unincorporated areas in a comprehensive Economic Development Strategy and implementation.

Leads the community into a unified economic development mode.

Grants

Relationship with other levels of government

Education 13

More training opportunities

Job specific training

Skilled workforce. Their contribution is funded by the taxpayers

Get better at matching the skills of the workforce to the needs of the business community. Get better at career guidance

Education 14-16

More training opportunities

Job specific training

Skilled workforce. Their contribution is funded by the taxpayers

Get better at matching the skills of the workforce to the needs of the business community. Get better at career guidance

Education 9-12

More training opportunities

College prep, citizenship, homemaking and or job preparation

Skilled workforce. Their contribution is funded by the taxpayers

Get better at matching the skills of the workforce to the needs of the business community. Get better at career guidance

Education k-8

More training opportunities

Fulfill the charter to produce educated citizens

Trained citizens. Their contribution is funded by the taxpayers

Get better at career guidance

Exporting companies (Manufacturers)

Economic development generally results in a more educated employee pool

Community is a source of skilled workers.

Community may have program to promote the products and services of its companies much the same way as it promotes tourist attractions.

Jobs, operating investment, capital equipment and facilities

Get better at forecasting their needs up to a decade out. Federal data cannot be trusted

Federal government

They must promote to pay the budget deficit

Redistribute some taxes back to the communities and repay political debts for votes

Grants

Promote a new decades long project like going to the moon. A project to become independent from no-renewable fuels could keep us prosperous for a generation and make it easier to plan careers.

Provide support systems for more than one career. This becomes more necessary as the speed of innovation accelerates.

Economic Forecasters

Their bread and butter

Analysis and forecasting

Could help economy if their data and assumptions are valid.

Not enough focus on the industries that provide positive cash flow

General Public

Better and more stable jobs

Go to school, defend our country, raise kids and contribute to the community

Their effort to train themselves and their families as well as paying taxes and investing in business.

Pay more attention to economic development and how government is run.

Be willing to pay a little more for locally- made goods.

Government data providers

They are directed to report by law

Acquire data about the economy, business, and jobs.

They could be economic progress monitors if they collected the proper data

Develop better precision or warn the country about how the data can be misleading

Health services

Fewer charity services

Government payments for Medicare recipients are just as valuable as exporting products.

Try to get reimbursed for illegal immigrant services.

Local economic development organizations

Their livelihood

Often mainly redistributes of federal money

Grants and services

Make sure you are filling the need, not just the government grant requirements.

Media

More to crow about. More readers

Report economic development and job activities. Sometimes biased

Inches of print dedicated to promoting economic development

Begin with the benefit of the doubt rather than pessimism or sensationalism

Non-exporting companies

Populace has more money to spend

Continue to employ, sell, and pay taxes.

Should contribute disproportionately more than cash-producing companies for the opportunity to make money within the community

Support the cash-producing companies

Professional Societies

More and higher paying jobs

Promote K-100 lifetime education

Guidance in career changes so skills do not go to waste as technology changes.

Promote job stability.

Forecast and promote careers in their special field.

Public Utilities

Results in more use of services

Investing in economic development programs.

Investing in economic development programs.

Could promote more alternate energy research and incentives

Real Estate Developers

Need for more housing, factories, and retail stores.

Need for more expensive housing, factories, and retail stores.

So far, they seem to always get richer primarily based on inflation.

Invest in overall economic planning

Promote and invest in economic development

Research organizations

More companies able to commercialize the results of their research.

More successful commercialization leads to more research grants

They provide the technology and tools that allow us to stay globally competitive.

Amass more innovative people and acquire more research grants.

Service businesses

More customers with more money.

Contribute time and money to the ARS

Service providers to business

More customers with more money.

Contribute time and money to the ARS

Shareholders

Probably not.

Buy low. Sell High.

Dividends from out of community investments spent in the community

Buy local stocks

State Government

More taxes

Tourism organizations

More travel

Occupancy taxes

Alliance to promote both business and tourism

Transportation

Exporting and tourism

Unions

More and higher paying jobs. Job stability

Venture Capital (professional)

Primarily interested in companies doing more than $5 million annual sales

There is a vital need for other forms of early stage investment money

Venture Capital (private)

Investment opportunities

Venture Capital (corporate)

Business expansion and diversification