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EDA Member Registration

• Gain an overview of economic development's key points and understand the pivotal role elected officials play in empowering communities to achieve economic objectives.
• Acquire skills in strategic community development planning, including creating guiding frameworks, utilizing data for decision-making, and gathering essential data for progress.
• Gain insight into local government's role in economic development, providing insights into its significance and impact.
• Understand core economic development strategies, learn to identify target markets, and develop compelling value propositions to meet their goals.

• Understand the  importance of collaboration in economic development, outlining team responsibilities, and exploring various funding mechanisms and structures for incentivization.

• Understand Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in economic development, evaluate performance metrics, identify relevant KPIs for economic growth, and understand their impact through illustrative outcomes.

• Identify different types of disasters, explains resilience concepts, outlines the process of fostering community economic resilience, and delineates the role of elected officials in this process