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Community Economic Development<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Professional Development Series for UW-Extension Faculty and Staff<\/strong><\/p>\n

Community economic development has been a focal point of Extension educational programming for over 35 years and remains critical to the Mission of Cooperative Extension and the University of Wisconsin.\u00a0 Extension educational programming in community economic development can take many forms from facilitating community discussions to providing technical economic analysis on a particular issue.\u00a0 The comfort level amongst UWEX faculty and staff in community economic development, however, is mixed.\u00a0 For some community economic development is a focal point of their programming and is very comfortable with a range of situations.\u00a0 Others are less comfortable and are unsure of what community economic is, and is not, and the roles that they can plan.<\/p>\n

This website is aimed at providing all UWEX faculty and staff with professional development opportunities in community economic development.\u00a0 This website could be viewed as a starting point for those who are less comfortable with community economic development or a place for more advanced training in how local economies function.\u00a0 Alternatively, one could think of this website as a “one-stop center” for training and educational materials on community economic development.<\/p>\n

There are three sets of materials for each topic area: (1) a powerpoint presentation (pdf); (2) accompanying factsheets (pdf); and (3) supplemental readings (pdf).\u00a0 Unfortunately, because so many of the supplemental readings are subject to copyright restrictions, they cannot be placed on a public website.\u00a0 To provide access all materials here plus the supplemental readings will be made available on a password protected Desire2Learn (D2L) site that is still under development.\u00a0 In addition to inclusion of copyrighted materials, the D2L site will allow for questions, comments and discussions.<\/p>\n

The materials are grouped into specific topic areas:<\/p>\n

*\u00a0\u00a0 Introduction: What is Community Economic Development?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

*\u00a0\u00a0 A Systems Approach to Community Economic Development<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

*\u00a0\u00a0 The Roles that Practitioners and Extension Educators Can Assume<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

*\u00a0\u00a0 An Introduction to Location Theory<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

*\u00a0\u00a0 Economic Growth Theory: An Introduction<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

*\u00a0\u00a0 Data Analysis<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

*\u00a0\u00a0 Community Economic Development Strategies<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a0There is a second page to this website that has all of the support reading materials.\u00a0 It is is password protected for the copyrighted materials and you will need to contact me (scdeller@wisc.edu) for the password.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Introduction: What is Community Economic Development?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Community Economic Development” is a merger of “community development” and “economic development”.\u00a0 Community development is traditionally thought of as focusing on building the social and political capital of communities through community organizing and the building of local institutions (leadership, business associations, effective government, community organizations, etc.).\u00a0 Economic development is focused on creating an environment that is conducive to economic opportunities.\u00a0 Often times this is narrowly thought of as job growth; but economic development is much broader.<\/p>\n

Powerpoint Presentation<\/a><\/p>\n

Factsheets<\/p>\n

What is Community Economic Development<\/a><\/p>\n

Economists and Policy Discussions<\/a><\/p>\n

Growth vs Development<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a0A Systems Approach to Community Economic Development<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two approaches or ways to think about community economic development through the lens of systems “thinking” are outlined.\u00a0 The first is the Shaffer Star which points to the community’s resources (land, labor, capital including both built and natural), markets (a capitalist economy), rules (laws), society (acceptable behavior), decision-making (being about to get to the root of a problem) and space (the community is part of a larger economy).\u00a0 The second is the community capitals framework as suggest by Nel and Jan Flora.\u00a0 The Floras argue that there are seven capitals: financial capital, political capital, social capital, human capital, cultural capital, natural capital and built capital.\u00a0 Viable communities require investments in each of these capital.\u00a0 There is significant overlap between the Floras’ community capitals and the Shaffer Star and both provide a framework to think about the community as a system.<\/p>\n

Powerpoint Presentation<\/a><\/p>\n

Factsheets<\/p>\n

The Shaffer Star: An Overview<\/a><\/p>\n