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RDG's Interview Series

Jan 20
3 min

RDG's Interview Series

RDG's INTERVIEW SERIES A Conversation with Dr. Anna Lebesch about Talent Development By RDG Principal Clint Nessmith Resource Development Group's relationship with JAXUSA Partnership dates back to the early 1990s when eventual RDG co-founder, Mike Trubiano, managed the first funding campaign for the organization that was then known as Cornerstone. Since then, we have had the pleasure of witnessing first-hand as this organization has become one of the top-performing economic d

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Does the Rising Tide Really Lift Everyone’s Boat?

Jun 24, 2020
3 min

Does the Rising Tide Really Lift Everyone’s Boat?

These are truly unique times in which we are living: global pandemic, renewed focus on systemic racism and economic disparity, generational economic upheaval and the ensuing instability and uncertainty about our future. It reminds me that many of our problems are not new and the solutions are long overdue. Just today I read an article highlighting a report issued this past week titled, “White Supremacy as Pre-existing Condition: Eight Solutions to Ensure Economic Recovery R

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Listen…..Learn…..Lead

Jun 24, 2020
1 min

Listen…..Learn…..Lead

LISTEN ……….LEARN……….LEAD “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Martin Luther King Jr. “As it has for more than two centuries, progress will come in fits and starts. It’s not always a straight line. It’s not always a smooth path.” – Barack Obama “Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.” – Fannie Lou Hammer “You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has freedom.” – Malcolm X “We need each other. All of us, we need each othe

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The COVID-19 Wake-Up Call – Is it all Bad?

May 26, 2020
4 min

The COVID-19 Wake-Up Call – Is it all Bad?

This week we are expanding our normal commentary on the intersection of life and economic development funding to look a bit more broadly at how our behavior impacts the world in which we live. Our interests span much more than raising money and with many of us trying to figure out the new normal, we are all searching for the positives that may come from this mess in which we currently find ourselves. The COVID-19 Wake-Up Call – Is it all Bad? By Doug Radcliff, RDG Director of

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Lotteries, Risk, and Infectious Diseases.

May 14, 2020
3 min

Lotteries, Risk, and Infectious Diseases.

By RDG Principal Beth Pulliam A few weeks ago, an organization known as Stop Predatory Gambling requested lottery betting to be immediately shut down in the US until at least 30 days after stimulus payments are received. Reported in the Wall Street Journal, the ARTICLE reminds us that humans like to take risks. Think about it: speeding, dating, stock trading, sitting underneath a tree hosting birds (current situation as I write this). If you are not convinced of our proclivit

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