Research

June 15, 2010 West Alabama Healthcare Facilities (AHA Members) Directory of Health Facilities in MS Alabama Counties MS Counties Black Belt Health Scholars Program MS Hospital Report 2008 Rural Health Leaders Pipeline flowchart State Profiles Disparities Uof A Overview of Rural Health Pipeline and Map
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March 16, 2010 The rural place building initiative developed by The Montgomery Institute (TMI) and partners garnered the Southern Growth Policies Board’s “2010 Innovator Award.” The role of TMI is to gather resources, guide programs, and goad partners to innovate. So, the award truly belongs to the wonderful partners who put this initiative in place – literally...
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July 2009   A multi-agency workgroup, encouraged by Governor Haley Barbour, has formulated a set of policy recommendations to enhance entrepreneurship and small business development in Mississippi. A survey of entrepreneurs, service providers, and elected officials found overwhelming support for entrepreneur support and the policy recommendations. The workgroups was gathered under the auspices of the...
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April 1 and 2, 2009  Forestry and the Forest Industry inWest Alabama and East Mississippi Sponsored by: The Montgomery Institute Presented by: University Center for Economic Development April 1 and 2, 2009 CLICK TO READ West Alabama and East Mississippi Wood Resources Land Use Timberland Ownership Timber Inventories Timber Growth and Drain Wood Residue...
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May 15, 2008 Results from the comprehensive regional competitiveness study conducted by The Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) at the University of Missouri were presented to leaders from across the WAEM Region at the 2007 Governors’ Summit. After the presentation, participants voted to set priority development strategies for the region. These strategies guided program development in the remainder of...
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February 2008  Over the last few years, a consortium of foundations interested in workforce development created Investing inWorkforce Intermediaries, a pilot project with a goal of supporting and learning from intermediaries doing exemplary work in the field of workforce development. In September 2007, the national funders announced a major new initiative, the National Fund forWorkforce Solutions (NFWS),...
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2007-2008  West Alabama – East Mississippi Regional Workforce and Educational Offering Inventory Education and Training Offerings Available through WAEM Community Colleges The West Alabama-East Mississippi WIRED Initiative has requested Technical Assistance from the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL) to help develop a comprehensive inventory of workforce and educational offerings among the Community and Junior Colleges within...
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April 2007  Increasingly, economic development experts are abandoning traditional approaches to economic development that rely on recruiting large enterprises with tax breaks, financial incentives, and other inducements.  Instead, they are relying on building businesses from the ground up and supporting the growth of existing enterprises.  CLICK TO READ
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March 17, 2003 The Commission on the Future of East Mississippi and West Alabama asked the Regional Academy to develop Cycle of Prosperity Benchmarks for Accountability and Decision-Making for the multi-county region served by the Commission.  CLICK TO READ
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November 18, 2002  This labor market evaluation is the product of a contract between the Wadley-Donovan Group, the South Mississippi Planning and Development District, and the Twin District Workforce Area. It is a summary of the labor market resources of a nine-county region in southeast Mississippi consisting of Clarke, Jasper, Kemper, Lauderdale, Leake, Neshoba,...
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