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Setting Economic Development Priorities Before and After a Disaster: Joplin’s Experience By Jonathan Wellemeyer, IEDC Though tornado season is just getting under way, devastation already struck Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, ...

Leaning forward: Go Big, Go Early, Go Fast, Be Smart.In 2011, together with our partners across the whole community, we responded to a record setting year of disasters, provided assistance to help communities all over the Nation with our grant ...

On January 26th, IEDC joined the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA), the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) and the U.S. Chamber’s Business Civic Leadership Council (BCLC) in co-sponsoring a webinar on ...

Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) offer technical assistance to small businesses such as business plan development, marketing, etc., to help them grow or recover after a disaster.