Helping Communities Shine

Whether researching and implementing ways to shape a community's economic development plan or partnering to create ways to put people to work, CREC connects researchers and policymakers with:

     • Data training
     • Custom portfolios that aid regional competitiveness

Project Profile

PEW CHIPS

Pew Charitable Trusts
Start Date: Aug 2023 — End Date: Apr 2024

CREC developed a network of top state economic development executives and engaged them in a collaborative group. CREC organized a series of conference calls, interviews, and meetings with the executives. To support that work, CREC also conducted research on key issues of concern to the network, including providing insights about how to measure their success and encourage effective investment of state dollars in economic development programs. Furthermore, CREC organized and hosted an annual state economic development executive roundtable where they discussed key issues of mutual interest to the group. This effort built on work undertaken to support state economic development executives since 2015.

About the Client

Pew Charitable Trusts

Pew Charitable Trusts is an independent, non-profit organization – the sole beneficiary of seven individual trusts established between 1948 and 1979 by two sons and two daughters of Sun Oil Company founder Joseph N. Pew and his wife, Mary Anderson Pew.