Project Profile
State Economic Development Executives Network
CREC is continuing its on-going efforts to develop a network of top state economic development executives and engaging them in a collaborative group. CREC is organizing a series of conference calls, interviews, and meetings with the executives. To support that work, CREC is also conducting 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 plans to organize and host an annual state economic development executive roundtable to discuss key issues of mutual interest to the group.
In 2024, the State Economic Development Executives Network transformed into a dues-paying network of top state economic development executives seeking peer learning and best practice sharing. Transitioning from an informal network supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts, SEDE agreed on June 24 to self-assess memberships and develop a work program that supports on-going meetings of chief executives, continued dialogue about hot topics, and a growing measuring of activities designed to promote more informed state leadership for economic development. This effort builds on work conducted in collaboration with CREC since 2015 and formally endorsed by the network through a competitive selection of CREC in April 2018.
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. |
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