EDABC's Western Economic Development Course

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Course registration fee includes lunches, breaks and dinner on the Tuesday evening.

Course content includes the following (subject to changes):

• Basics of Community and Economic Development
  
• 7 Rules for a Community Success
  
• Strategic Planning
  
• Economic Development Marketing
  
• Creating an Entrepreneurial Community
  
• Managing Economic Development Organizations
  
• Workforce Development
  
• Economic Development Ethics
  
• Statistics - Finding and Using Statistics in Economic Development
  
• Economic Development Finance
  
• Real Estate Development and Reuse
  
• Partnerships between Non Aboriginal Communities and Native Development Corporations
  
• Business Retention and Expansion
  

Take this opportunity to learn with your colleagues. A variety of faculty will be discussing current trends in the economic development profession and how you can be building successful programs in your communities.

Here are just some of the faculty we have lined up for this year.

MAURY FORMAN, Business Services Division, Washington State Department of Commerce, Seattle, Washington

LANIE McMULLIN, Executive Director of Economic Development, City of Everett

ANNE NELSON, MBA

SUSAN BRAKE, Account Director, Development Counsellors International (DCI), the leader in marketing places.

KENT RUPERT, Economic Development Team Leader, City of Airdrie, Alberta