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

Analyze Your Clusters and Talent
We assist policymakers assess their region’s industries and understand their workforce so that the next level of improvements can be made.
Plan Your Economic Future
Working with public and private sector leaders, we identify and evaluate economic and workforce challenges and find solutions.
Leadership Development
Regional leaders are trained on topics such as impact analysis and GIS instruction. Custom data trainings help meet municipal needs.
Manage Your Professional Networks
We provide a quantitative analysis approach to management support to professional agencies that focuses on community and economic development.
Technical Assistance
Our technical assistance aids policymakers and workforce development staff to better implement innovation and job-creation strategies.

Project Catalogue

ARC Entrepreneurial Benchmark Update 2018-2020
Appalachian Regional Commission
Start Date: Oct 2018 — End Date: Jun 2020

CREC, worked with EntreWorks Consulting, continued their work in promoting entrepreneurial efforts in the Appalachian Region by maintaining a database of the region’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, updating research on the region’s economic dynamism, and maintaining a web presence at http://arceco.creconline.org for the entrepreneurial directory and the entrepreneurial index (updated through 2017).

ARC Entrepreneurial Benchmark Update 2018-2020
EntreWorks Consulting
Start Date: Dec 2018 — End Date: Jan 2020

Assist BrightHive with WIN Apprenticeship Data Platform
BrightHive, Inc.
Start Date: Aug 2019 — End Date: Jan 2020

Workforce Intelligence Network for Southeast Michigan (WIN)/Southeast Michigan Community Alliance (SEMCA) entered into a contract with BrightHive to build an apprenticeship data platform to support connecting employers with performance-based objectives (PBOs), competency frameworks and models, and other skills outlines and to help employers create competence-based apprenticeships through integration with and subsequent use by one employer-facing […]

Evaluating Talent Pipeline Management Initiatives and a Peer-Learning Process
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation (USCCF)
Start Date: Jul 2017 — End Date: Dec 2019

CREC supports the USCCF Talent Pipeline Management (TPM) Academy by helping 40 practitioners from regions across the U.S. to articulate their TPM initiatives and develop measurable program goals and objectives. CREC facilitated two cohorts of 20 practitioners through a process in which they develop action plans and align performance measures with what they expect to […]

Pennsylvania Local Development District System Strategy
Local Development District Association of Pennsylvania
Start Date: Jan 2019 — End Date: Dec 2019

CREC and EntreWorks Consulting are developing a strategic plan for the seven Local Development Districts located in Pennsylvania. Each of Pennsylvania’s seven LDDs provides technical and programmatic assistance in four core programs; Business Finance, Export/International Marketing, Government Procurement Assistance and Transportation Planning. Additionally, each district has taken on roles important to their region that differ […]

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