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

Building a Strong State-Federal Partnership to Support Manufacturing
National Institute of Standards & Technology – Manufacturing Extension Partnership
Start Date: Oct 2002 — End Date: Ongoing

CREC worked with several partners, including the State Science & Technology Institute, to develop a strong support structure for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NIST MEP) program as it seeks to help manufacturers become globally competitive.

National Association of Development Organizations (NADO), EDD COP
National Association of Development Organizations (NADO)
Start Date: Jan 2023 — End Date: Apr 2027

CREC is partnering with the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO), University Economic Development Association (UEDA), National Association of Regional Councils (NARC), and First Nations Development Institute on a five-year effort to build and nurture the Economic Development District Community of Practice (EDD CoP). Led by NADO, with support from the U.S. Economic Development Administration […]

Jobs and Employment Data Exchange (JEDx)
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation (USCCF)
Start Date: Dec 2023 — End Date: Sep 2025

The JEDx initiative is an effort coordinated by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation that seeks to develop a public-private approach for collecting and using standards-based jobs and employment data across states. CREC is playing an advisory role by helping to inform: the ongoing development of a standardized data model for employment and wage data […]

GO Virginia
GO Virginia
Start Date: Nov 2023 — End Date: Oct 2024

The Talent Pathway Initiative (TPI) is a project of Go Virginia Region 7 that will bring together perspectives of leaders in business and education to address Northern Virginia’s workforce needs in computer services, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies. The Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness (CREC) and George Mason University (GMU) Center for Regional Analysis (CRA) will […]

Governor’s Office of Entrepreneurship, State of Nevada
Start Date: Feb 2024 — End Date: Jul 2024

CREC works with the Office of Entrepreneurship in the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) to develop a set of metrics in support of entrepreneurship and innovation in the state of Nevada. The work is being done in two phases. Phase one involves identifying and reviewing available data for inclusion in a data dashboard. Phase […]

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