How Should Economic Development Organizations Measure True Impact?
By RDG Director of Innovation and Global Research Doug Radcliff “Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're...
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Rob Radcliff
- May 4, 2020
- 3 min
WHY DOESN’T CONGRESS LIKE THE 501(c)6?
If your corporate structure happens to be as a 501(c)6, that headline probably got your attention. In a recent POLL RDG conducted, 70% of...
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Rob Radcliff
- Apr 14, 2020
- 3 min
Funding Your Work In Uncertain Times – Part Two!
First off, I hope everyone is healthy and safe right now. This is an uncertain time for us all and the most important thing we can do is...
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Rob Radcliff
- Apr 1, 2020
- 2 min
Funding Your Work In Uncertain Times
As EDOs look to their budgets over the next few months, determining the proper course of action will be challenging to say the least. We...
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Rob Radcliff
- Dec 13, 2018
- 3 min
Planning Now Translates To Future Fundraising Success
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of joining a panel at IEDC’s Annual Conference in Atlanta where my role was to speak about the...
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Rob Radcliff
- Jul 13, 2016
- 2 min
Stumped…
I had a rather disturbing conversation with the CEO of a major corporation this past week that sits on the board of one of our clients....
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Rob Radcliff
- Jan 5, 2016
- 1 min
How Do We Tell Our Story?
One of the biggest challenges for EDO’s is telling their story in a succinct, clear and compelling way. Not the story of the community or...
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Rob Radcliff
- Jan 1, 2016
- 2 min
Does The Rising Tide Really Lift Everyone’s Boat?
I read an article in our local paper a few weeks ago that really stuck with me. It chronicled the dramatic disparity in relative...
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Rob Radcliff
- Dec 28, 2015
- 3 min
Big Things Come In Small Packages: Small Markets CAN Compete In The Big Leagues
RDG does a lot of work in major metros across the United States. In fact, of the 48 metros of 1 million population or higher with a...
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Rob Radcliff
- Sep 29, 2014
- 3 min
Tell the Story or Change the Story?
I just finished reading How Money Walks: How $2 Trillion Moved Between the States and Why It Matters by Travis Brown. It traces the...
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Rob Radcliff
- Jun 10, 2014
- 2 min
Secretariat Was Fast…..
As one of the top three thoroughbreds of all time, Secretariat was in a class by himself. In fact, no other horse has ever run 1 1/2...
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Clint Nessmith
- Apr 30, 2014
- 2 min
Building Blocks
Let’s face it. Unless you are one of the lucky few organizations with more money than you know what to do with, there never seems to be...
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Rob Radcliff
- Feb 13, 2014
- 3 min
Investor Relations: What Am I Missing?
This is an age-old question asked by many Chamber and EDO CEO’s when their investors tell them they are “cutting back”, “dropping out” or...
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Rob Radcliff
- Sep 3, 2013
- 2 min
Leadership Trumps All…
Recently I was meeting with the board of a prospective client and was asked the following question: what is the one thing that makes the...
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Rob Radcliff
- Aug 21, 2013
- 3 min
Transformational Benchmarks: Re-Defining Metrics for EDOs
Today, Mark Spandle recaps the ACCE Conference Workshop on Economic Development Metrics presented by Mac Holladay of Market Street...
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Rob Radcliff
- May 15, 2013
- 2 min
What Are You Doing About the Evolving Workforce?
It was a complete coincidence that I found myself reading three totally independent items discussing this countries evolving workforce...
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