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<h2 id="c30">3.0 Strategic Direction</h2>
<h3 id="c31">3.1 Vision Statement & Goals/Objectives</h3>
<em>Where does the region want to go and how are we going to get there?</em>
<p>Economic Vision for Western Arizona</p>
<blockquote>
<em>
"Cultivating creativity, diversity, and innovation to build a resilient and robust economy.""
</em>
</blockquote>
<p>
Western Arizona enjoys a robust year-round economy with a workforce that lives, plays, and shops locally. Our local economies are supported by modern and resilient infrastructure, strategic development of employment and business opportunities, and unwavering protection of natural assets and historical character that define our Region.
</p>
<h3 id="c32">3.2 Mission & Guiding Principles</h3>
<p>
<strong>Our Mission:</strong>
<blockquote>
<em>
"To foster an innovative and resilient economy for Western Arizona's businesses, workers, and families."
</em>
</blockquote>
<strong>Guiding Principles:</strong> Established to create a broader framework for our vision and mission statements. They identify a set of values critical to our success of achieving our vision. We recognize the importance of maintaining rural lifestyles and enhancing our quality of life. Also;
<ul>
<li>We emphasize planning for and implementing <a href="economic-resilience.html">economic resilience</a>.
</li>
<li>We advocate for <a href="projects.html">regional capacity building</a> as the public sector’s role in investing in new ideas, knowledge transfer, and infrastructure to build a foundation so that our private sector can flourish.</li>
<li>We value our preservation of unique and significant natural and cultural resources and respect diverse cultures.</li>
<li>We <a href="strategy.html">encourage the participation of all citizens</a> and consensus-based planning and recognize that success requires a long-term commitment.
</li>
<li>We value the importance of understanding our regional economy and using that to shape our future.</li>
<li>We believe <a href="partnerships.html">strong and meaningful partnerships</a> expand opportunities.</li>
<li>We encourage sustainable economic development, believing that integration of community, economy, and environment is key to our success.
</li>
<li>We play a leadership role in economic development in our Region.
</li>
<li>We believe in building on our strengths, supporting the maintenance, and preservation of existing business and infrastructure.
</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="c33">3.3 Action Plan</h3>
<p>3.3.1 Analyze our regional economy</p>
<p>Actions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Develop relationships and committees to advance inclusive regional economic development, including:
<ul>
<li>Focus on smaller, struggling Region communities and micro- to small enterprises.
</ul>
<li>Continue to assist with project development, execution and completion, and technical assistance to Region communities.</li>
<li>Solicit community input for our <a href="survey.html">2021-2025 CEDS Community Survey</a> (open May 1, 2021, to September 30, 2021), then evaluating and ranking the survey results for the <a href="strategy.html">2021 CEDS Strategy Committee</a> (begins October 1, 2021, and ends March 30, 2022(.
</li>
<li>Regularly convene Region stakeholders to advance regional planning and development of economic opportunities.
</li>
<li>Arizona Rural Policy Forum; AAED Rural Committee; local Economic Development Corporations; and Transportation Planning Organizations
</li>
<li>Explore the feasibility of co-sponsoring business plans and start-up competitions with Region Small Business Development Centers to drive business development.
</li>
</ul>
<p>Timeline:</p>
<ul>
<li>Summer 2021: Provide community Technical Assistance when requested
</li>
<li>Fall and Winter 2021: 2021-2025 CEDS Community Survey
</li>
<li>Spring 2022: 2021 CEDS Strategy Committee
</li>
</ul>
<p>Update:</p>
<ul>
<li>Distribute 2021-2025 CEDS Community Survey for public replies on May 1, 2021
</li>
<li>Attend AAED Spring Conference 2021 (Scottdale)
</li>
<li>Regular in-person meetings with Region stakeholders to discuss Technical Assistance requirements
</li>
</ul>
<p>Lead:</p>
<ul>
<li>Executive Director</li>
<li>EDD Board Members</li>
</ul>
<p>
<p>Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)</p>
<ul>
<li>Number of responses: CEDS Community Survey</li>
<li>Number of volunteers: CEDS Strategy Committee
</li>
<li>Number of priority projects that progress
</li>
</ul>
<p>3.3.2 Define regional economic development goals
</p>
<p>Actions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Quarterly Executive Director updates to WAEDD Board of Directors and Executive Committee
</li>
<li>Explore opportunities for agricultural technology, renewable energy technology, training, technology apprenticeship programs, etc.
</li>
<li>Monthly board meetings with target economic cluster information and other learning opportunities</li>
<li>Convene CEDS Strategy Committee on October 1, 2021</li>
<li>Continue to mitigate regional weaknesses identified in the SWOT Analysis</li>
</ul>
<p>Timeline:</p>
<ul>
<li>Summer 2021: Monthly board meetings (except for July)
</li>
<li>Fall and Winter 2021: Identify regional economic cluster SMEs for new EDD members
</li>
<li>Spring 2022: CEDS Committee Town Halls; EDD Board Retreat</li>
</ul>
<p>Update:</p>
<ul>
<li>Board meetings per Arizona Open Meeting Laws</li>
<li>Board Meeting Minutes and videos published on the website</li>
<li></li>
</ul>
<p>Lead:</p>
<ul>
<li>Executive Director</li>
<li>EDD Board Members</li>
</ul>
<p>
<p>Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)</p>
<ul>
<li>Number of new members that represent previously underrepresented industry & demographic members</li>
<li>Frequency of Board meetings and EDD updates, including outside specialists
</li>
<li>Number of convening & summit co-sponsors and value of sponsorships
</li>
</ul>
<p>3.3.3 Determine regional economic development opportunities
</p>
<p>Actions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Support professional and business development efforts and increase public and private institutional capacity in areas that foster economic development.</li>
<li>Co-sponsor business start-up boot camps with Arizona Small Business Development Network and local economic development organizations.
</li>
<li>Hold semi-annual board retreats rather than annual retreats: align our work with strategic and budget planning among regional stakeholders; and debrief on our progress and create a strategic plan that will inform our CEDS update.</li>
<li>Support attendance of Executive Director at conferences like the Arizona Association for Economic Development (AAED) Spring Conference, Fall Forum, AAED Rural Committee, Arizona Rural Policy Forum, and the annual NADO Annual Training Conference.</li>
<li><strong>Tourism Economy Development</strong> with focus on developing hospitality workforce and travel tourism.</li>
<li>Identify the region’s key economic resilience vulnerabilities and encourage resilience-building goals.
</li>
</ul>
<p>Timeline:</p>
<ul>
<li>Summer 2021: Attend Local First Arizona Rural Policy Forum
</li>
<li>Fall and Winter 2021: Attend AAED Fall Forum
</li>
<li>Winter: 2022: Attend NADO Annual Training Conference
</li>
</ul>
<p>Update:</p>
<ul>
<li>AAED Spring Conference completed in June 2021</li>
<li>Regular AAED Rural Committee participation
</li>
</ul>
<p>Lead:</p>
<ul>
<li>Executive Director</li>
</ul>
<p>
<p>Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)</p>
<ul>
<li>Number of registrants & attendees</li>
<li>Action items informed by conferences, retreats, and Spring/Fall Forums
</li>
<li>Number of regional activities supported by EDD membership and staff
</li>
</ul>
<p>3.3.4 Formulate and implement a regional economic development program
</p>
<p>Actions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Set clear and attainable economic development objectives</li>
<li>Design a holistic framework to achieve them
</li>
<li>Investigate and develop an ‘economic niche’ to differentiate from other economic development organizations
</li>
<li>Keep the program as simple and straightforward as possible
</li>
<li>Establish a regional economic development ‘report card’ to monitor and track economic growth
</li>
<li>Bolster capacities that may lead to economic resilience as part of our regional planning efforts.
</li>
</ul>
<p>Timeline:</p>
<ul>
<li>Summer 2021: Distribute 2021-2025 CEDS Community Survey for public replies on May 1, 2021</li>
<li>Fall and Winter 2021: Appoint 2021 CEDS Strategy Committee</li>
<li>Spring 2022: Convene 30-Day Public Review and Comment On CEDS & Distribute 5-year CEDS report</li>
</ul>
<p>Update:</p>
<ul>
<li>Ongoing responses being collected on 2021-2025 CEDS Community Survey for public replies until September 30, 2021</li>
</ul>
<p>Lead:</p>
<ul>
<li>Executive Director</li>
</ul>
<p>Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)</p>
<ul>
<li>Number of economic development education programs & number of attendees</li>
<li>Number of economic development meetings, number of attendees, & diversity of industries and communities served</li>
</ul>
<p>
<h3>Important EDA Update <small>(as of April 14, 2021):</small></h3>
<p>
<a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USEDA/bulletins/2ccd92e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">U.S. Economic Development Administration Unveils Updated Investment Priorities</a>
</p>
<p>
The updated investment priorities support the U.S. Commerce Department’s agenda, which is driven by four pillars to increase American competitiveness:
</p>
<ol>
<li>Revitalizing U.S. manufacturing and developing advanced industries</li>
<li>Building a 21st century workforce</li>
<li>Maintaining leadership in global innovation</li>
<li>Promoting American businesses, at home and abroad.</li>
</ol>
<p>
The District fully supports the <a href="https://eda.gov/about/investment-priorities/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> EDA Investment Policy Guidelines</a> for evaluating proposed EDA investments. Regional investments will meet or exceed the following guidelines:
</p>
<p>
<ul>
<li>Align with EDA’s investment priorities,</li>
<li>Effectively address the creation and/or retention of high-quality jobs, and</li>
<li>Document that the applicant can or will leverage other resources, both public and private, and Demonstrate the applicant’s capacity to commence the proposed project promptly, to use funds quickly and effectively, and provide a clear scope of work that includes a description of specific, measurable project outputs.</li>
</ul>
<p>
EDA’s investment priorities provide an overarching framework to ensure its grant investment portfolio – ranging from planning to infrastructure construction -- contributes to local efforts to build, improve, or better leverage economic assets that allow businesses to succeed and regional economies to prosper and become more resilient. Competitive grant applications will be responsive to the evaluation criteria listed under each individual funding announcement, including at least one of the following investment priorities:
</p>
<p>
<strong>1. Equity:</strong> Economic development planning or implementation projects that advance equity across America through investments that directly benefit:
</p>
<p>
1) one or more traditionally underserved populations, including but not limited to women, Black, Latino, and Indigenous and Native American persons, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders or,
</p>
<p>
2) underserved communities within geographies that have been systemically and/or systematically denied a full opportunity to participate in aspects of economic prosperity such as Tribal Lands, Persistent Poverty Counties, and rural areas with demonstrated, historical underservice. For more information on these populations and geographies see: <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/20/executive-order-advancing-racial-equity-and-support-for-underserved-communities-through-the-federal-government/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Executive Order On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government</a>.
</p>
<p>
EDA is committed to working with populations and underserved communities that have been denied a full opportunity to participate in aspects of economic prosperity in the past.
</p>
<p>
<strong>2. Recovery & Resilience:</strong> Economic development planning or implementation projects that build <a href="economic-resilience.html#c100">economic resilience</a> to and long-term recovery from economic shocks, like those experienced by coal and power plant communities, or other communities impacted by the decline of an important industry or a natural disaster, that may benefit from economic diversification-focused resilience.
</p>
<p>
<strong>3. Workforce Development:</strong> Economic development planning or implementation projects that support workforce education and skills training activities directly connected to the hiring and skills needs of the business community and that result in well-paying, quality jobs.
</p>
<p>
<strong>4. Manufacturing:</strong> Economic development planning or implementation projects that encourage job creation, business expansion, technology and capital upgrades, and productivity growth in manufacturing, including efforts that contribute to the competitiveness and growth of domestic suppliers or to the domestic production of innovative, high-value products and production technologies.
</p>
<p>
<strong>5. Technology-Based Economic Development: </strong> Economic development planning or implementation projects that foster regional knowledge ecosystems that support entrepreneurs and startups, including the commercialization of new technologies, that are creating technology-driven businesses and high-skilled, well-paying jobs of the future.
</p>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Our <a href="https://twitter.com/US_EDA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@US_EDA</a> approved <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CEDS?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CEDS</a> includes a detailed <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SWOT?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SWOT</a> analysis of our region. One regional dynamic that is addressed is our regional <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Broadband?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Broadband</a> needs. Learn more at <a href="https://t.co/knVj6Cy9nX">https://t.co/knVj6Cy9nX</a> <a href="https://t.co/eQgHmnlPmO">pic.twitter.com/eQgHmnlPmO</a></p>— Western Arizona EDD (@westernazedd) <a href="https://twitter.com/westernazedd/status/1378418794515685377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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<p>
<strong>6. Environmentally-Sustainable Development:</strong>
</p>
<p>
Economic development planning or implementation projects that help address the climate crisis including through the development and implementation of green products, processes (including green infrastructure), places, and buildings.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Climate change-related impacts are currently affecting our rural communities and economies. Learn more about climate change impact mitigation strategies in our <a href="https://twitter.com/US_EDA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@US_EDA</a> approved <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CEDS?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CEDS</a> at <a href="https://t.co/kQKCR5kpRz">https://t.co/kQKCR5kpRz</a> <a href="https://t.co/lbIbYHwEAZ">pic.twitter.com/lbIbYHwEAZ</a></p>— Western Arizona EDD (@westernazedd) <a href="https://twitter.com/westernazedd/status/1378039076343873536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Our <a href="https://twitter.com/US_EDA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@US_EDA</a> approved <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CEDS?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CEDS</a> creates an <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/economic?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#economic</a> vision for western <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Arizona?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Arizona</a> that means cultivating <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/creativity?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#creativity</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/diversity?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#diversity</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/innovation?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#innovation</a> like Environmentally-Sustainable Development to build a <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/strong?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#strong</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/resilient?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#resilient</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/economy?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#economy</a>. <a href="https://t.co/ofer82SZ5w">https://t.co/ofer82SZ5w</a> <a href="https://t.co/FlKlqotrU7">https://t.co/FlKlqotrU7</a></p>— Western Arizona EDD (@westernazedd) <a href="https://twitter.com/westernazedd/status/1385619243039817728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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<strong>7. Exports & FDI: </strong> Economic development planning or implementation projects that enhance or build community assets to support growth in US exports or increased foreign direct investment.
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