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POSITIONED TO WIN: How can communities organize to pursue federal funds and just about anything?

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

RDG and Bloomberg Collaborate on Economic Recovery.

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

Tactical Guide: Municipal Economic Development Funding

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

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...

The Silly Season is Upon Us…Again

Thanks to Ian Scott at ACCE, I recently read an article whose premise was hauntingly familiar: see Corporations and Politics: Shunning...

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...

The Silly Season is Upon Us!

I’m not talking about the upcoming inaugural College Football Playoffs, although that is pretty silly right now! I’m talking about the...

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...