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

Project Catalogue

Administrative Datasets on Non-degree Credentials: Creating and Analyzing a Repository National Science Foundation/George Washington University
National Science Foundation
Start Date: Sep 2021 — End Date: Jul 2023

CREC is collaborated with George Washington University Institute of Public Policy (GWIPP) to support the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics’ (NCSES) use of administrative data to analyze training and education of the nation’s skilled technical workforce (STW). The limitations of survey data in this field necessitated the utilization of […]

New York State (NYS) Tax Incentives
New York State Department of Taxation and Finance
Start Date: Jan 2023 — End Date: Jun 2023

The New York State Tax Incentive Project was an initiative to better understand the state’s business offerings, their effectiveness, and how they compared to other states’ programs. The initiative selected 26 incentives programs that it wanted to focus its research efforts on. CREC was subcontracted to handle the third part of the request, focusing on […]

Inventory of Public and Private Sources of Education and Workforce Data
Lumina Foundation
Start Date: Mar 2023 — End Date: May 2023

CREC created an inventory of public and private sources of education and workforce data to increase the capacity of the public Workforce and Labor Market Information System (WLMIS) to provide relevant data for education and training providers. The inventory considered a wide array of data sources that measure important WLMIS concepts, including: Households and People […]

Non-Degree Credentials Research Network Staff Support
George Washington Institute of Public Policy
Start Date: Sep 2022 — End Date: May 2023

CREC collaborated with the George Washington Institute of Public Policy (GWIPP) on support for the Non-degree Credentials Research Network (NCRN), a project funded through a grant from Lumina Foundation. The NCRN is a multi-disciplinary community of scholars, practitioners and policymakers that focuses on the little-understood role of certificates, certifications, and other non-degree credentials in the […]

Increasing Public Labor Market Information Capacity to Provide Sub-State and Skills Projections Data
Lumina Foundation
Start Date: Dec 2021 — End Date: Mar 2023

CREC collaborated with the Projections Managing Partnership (PMP) to increase the capacity of the public Labor Market Information (LMI) system to provide relevant substate and skills data for education and training providers. The project inventoried substate projections availability among states, reviewed and documented methods for developing substate projections, added new substate projections content and toolkits […]