Jul 30, 2019 | Economic Development, Research and Data
Far-sighted community leaders are thinking beyond the current economic expansion to industry mixes that can sustain prosperity well into the future. Thomas P. Miller & Associates is using a new concept called community resilience to help Elkhart and Dubois County...
Jul 30, 2019 | Economic Development, Research and Data, Workforce Development
Leaders of rural areas carry remarkable databases of people and organizations in their minds. If someone makes society function, the leaders seem to know about them. Yet, useful as they are, memories only go so far. Thomas P. Miller & Associates has discovered...
Jun 27, 2019 | Research and Data, Workforce Development
As the Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act (WIOA) is ending its first four-year State Plan cycle, it’s time for each State to begin working on its new unified or combined state plan for submission by Spring 2020. The new planning cycle is an opportunity for states to...
Jun 27, 2019 | Economic Development, Research and Data, Workforce Development
Were Shakespeare to advise regions about attracting and retaining talent, he might defer to Polonius in Hamlet, who famously said, “To thine own self be true.” Too many places are trying to represent themselves as something they are not, and millennials, who place...
May 22, 2019 | Evaluation, Research and Data
You run a great nonprofit but don’t know how to use data to prove it. Or you fund nonprofits and you’re determined to have measurable results, but don’t understand measuring performance. No one on your team majored in statistics and the experts sound academic. The...
Apr 24, 2019 | Economic Development, Research and Data
Community development professionals are well aware that Opportunity Zones could be the most powerful economic revitalization tool to come along in a generation. What isn’t so well understood is how to attract OZ investors to census tracts that for the most part have...
