Place-Based Community Development as a Platform for Federal and State Program Collaboration
Communities of place – towns, neighborhoods, and rural regions – can serve as integrative locations for bringing together the efforts of diverse federal and state programs. Illinois ResourceNet can structure workshops and conferences that invite federal program officers from a variety of agencies to consider multiple program strategies arising from different kinds of Illinois communities.
For example, Illinois ResourceNet can:
• Convene workshops aimed at matching up federal grant opportunities with community economic development plans that involve workforce development, small business development, small area transportation studies, community technology enhancements, and entrepreneurship training.
• Structure workshops that identify federal funds that can potentially support the components of local agribusiness strategies, including agri- tourism, the creation of micro-business incubators, the diversification of farm-based enterprises, home-based enterprises, and the development of markets for new agricultural products.
• Invite federal agency representatives to jointly consider how the elements of comprehensive community development plans match up over a two or three year period with federal resources that will come available through grants, tax credits, loans, and procurement opportunities.
Collaborative planning and project development that is place-based is unique in its capacity to invite fund development strategies across a range of program areas.


















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