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

What We Do

Analyze Your Clusters and Talent
We assist policymakers assess their region’s industries and understand their workforce so that the next level of improvements can be made.
Plan Your Economic Future
Working with public and private sector leaders, we identify and evaluate economic and workforce challenges and find solutions.
Leadership Development
Regional leaders are trained on topics such as impact analysis and GIS instruction. Custom data trainings help meet municipal needs.
Manage Your Professional Networks
We provide a quantitative analysis approach to management support to professional agencies that focuses on community and economic development.
Technical Assistance
Our technical assistance aids policymakers and workforce development staff to better implement innovation and job-creation strategies.

Project Catalogue

Post-Disaster Economic Recovery for Manufacturing Facilities
American Planning Association
Start Date: Oct 2014 — End Date: Dec 2014

CREC produced a briefing paper on post-disaster economic recovery for manufacturing facilities as part of the American Planning Association's work with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to create briefing papers for planners concerning “Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery: Next Generation.”

Gaining Better Understanding of Customers’ LMI Needs through Key Customer Focus Groups
The Workforce Information Council
Start Date: Apr 2013 — End Date: Sep 2014

Building upon work previously conducted to complete the report LMI Customers and Their Needs: Customer-Oriented LMI Product Innovation, CREC, on behalf of the LMI Institute, will continue its work with the Customer Consultation Study Group of the Workforce Information Council.

Small Business Supply Chain Opportunities in Northwest Pennsylvania
American Planning Association
Start Date: Oct 2013 — End Date: Sep 2014

In partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration and Entreworks Consulting, CREC is conducting a comprehensive manufacturing supply chain analysis for Northwest Pennsylvania along with hosting matchmaking events designed to help local small businesses capture new supply chain opportunities in transportation equipment manufacturing and shale gas production industries.

Developing Web-based Economic Indicator Dashboard
Virginia’s Region 2000 Partnership
Start Date: Mar 2014 — End Date: Jul 2014

EntreWorks Consulting and CREC collaborated to develop a web-based economic dashboard for Virginia’s Region 2000.

Labor Market Information for Workforce Investment Boards
U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Labor
Start Date: Jan 2014 — End Date: Jan 2014

Through the LMI Institute, CREC staff developed a customized labor market information (LMI) training course for workforce investment boards in Saint Croix and Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The training was designed to familiarize workforce board staff with LMI and basic analytical methods, with an emphasis on how the data can be used to help […]

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