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By RDG Principal Brent Jonas As daily news about tariffs and trade realignment dominate the national spotlight, chamber and economic...

By RDG CEO Clint Nessmith Matt Chambers and I attended IEDC’s Leadership Conference in Washington D.C. a few weeks ago. The conference...

By RDG Senior Principal Amy Curtis In today's fast-paced global economy, economic development organizations (EDOs) and chambers create...

“A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.” -James Freeman Clarke By RDG Senior Principal Amy Curtis...

By RDG CEO Clint Nessmith There are many individuals in the economic development and Chamber industry who have never worked with a...

Profiles in Leadership: Helen Cauthen By RDG Principal Ellie Dunavant Resource Development Group (RDG) recently completed a successful...

By RDG COO Matt Chambers Fundraising, whether via memberships and sponsorships or special funds/campaigns, is a critical component in the...

By RDG Director of Innovation and Global Research Doug Radcliff As a result of the ongoing pandemic, we know governments at all levels...

This post zooms out from RDG’s bread and butter of fundraising campaign management and focuses on our consulting skillset, specifically...

In collaboration with Bloomberg Associates, a part of Michael Bloombergs’ Bloomberg Philanthropies, RDG developed a Municipal Funding...

This is the answer to the question we fundraising consultants are most asked in 2020.  It's a great question! After all, back in April we...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

Principal and Co-Owner Clint Nessmith provides our blog for this edition of RDG Interactive. I was recently at Pat Danahy’s retirement...

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...

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...