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

Vision Plan for North Carolina’s Eastern Region

NCEast Alliance
Start Date: Jan 2005 — End Date: Oct 2006

The Council for Community & Economic Research (C2ER) and the Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness (CREC) assisted North Carolina’s Eastern Region Commission, today known as NCEast Alliance, in developing a strategic vision for the future. The organizations worked with more than 70 area representatives on the plan; and C2ER and CREC also conducted a regional cluster analysis that included an exploration of sub-regional cluster opportunities.

Working with Eva Klein & Associates as well as partners within the region, the project team gained input from more than 400 regional stakeholders. CREC spearheaded dialogue to determine the proposed regional vision implementation.

About the Client

NCEast Alliance

The NCEast Alliance, formerly the Eastern Region Commission, is the lead economic development organization serving eastern North Carolina. It works with state, local and national economic development organizations to help existing industries expand; actively market to and assist in the recruitment of new businesses into the area; build regional economic capacity; and provide confidential site location assistance for companies […]