Strategic Planning for Regional Economic Development in Western North Carolina

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  • Boggs, Bruce S.
    • Other Affiliation: Assistant Director of the EDA University Center, North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Abstract
  • Community-based strategic planning is gaining wide acceptance in North Carolina. Communities large and small have used strategic planning principles to set priorities, focus their efforts and mobilize resources for community and economic development. The Regional Economic Strategy Project (RESP), undertaken by Western Carolina University's Center for Improving Mountain Living, applied strategic planning methods in an effort to stimulate regional economic development in seventeen western North Carolina counties. The project received a 1989 Project of the Year award from the National Association of Management and Technical Assistance Centers (NAMTAC). In 1990, it won a second NAMTAC Project of the Year award for applied research conducted under the project's Business Capital Task Force. A third NAMTAC Project of the Year award was announced in 1992 for the Mountain Commercial Lending Consortium, an initiative that grew out of the RESP. In a report to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Corporation for Enterprize Development (CFED) cited the Regional Economic Strategy Project as an example of what CFED has called the new paradigm, or Third Wave, of economic development policy.
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  • Article
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Journal title
  • Carolina Planning Journal
Journal volume
  • 18
Journal issue
  • 2
Page start
  • 9
Page end
  • 16
Language
  • English
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  • Carolina Planning Journal

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