If you are looking for a tool to help you with your business retention and expansion strategy then our AlbertaBusinessCounts (ABC) Program is the answer.
This software gives your community a consistent method for gathering the data needed to identify and analyze business needs at the local, regional and provincial level.
Within our program is a series of free webinars designed to provide you with information and training relating to our AlbertaBusinessCounts Program.
EDA holds the provincial master license for Executive Pulse, a software designed to collect and analyze data on existing industries in Alberta. A special licensing agreement enables EDA to make this software available to economic development organizations at a reduced price.
Instructor: Natalie Gibson
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Plan now to attend the 2017 EDAC Conference in Niagara Falls, ON.
For more information click here.
Plan to attend the upcoming IEDC Fall Conference.
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Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
Online registration
This intensive boot-camp course will help prepare local elected officials, community leaders and economic development leadership to support economic development, disaster resilience and economic recovery activities in their communities.
Hosted by the Town of Vegreville.
For more information: Cliff Craig
Phone: 780-632-2606
Email: ccraig@vegreville.com
Hosted by the County of Grande Prairie
For more information: Chris King
Phone: 780-513-3956
Email: cking@countygp.ab.ca
This course clearly articulates the eight stage process for real estate development and reuse. Specifically, course participants will learn the fundamentals of market and site analysis, financial feasibility, and what political considerations are required to move a development project from conception to realization. Additionally, this course will cover a wide variety of financing tools that are available at the local, regional, and state levels, including tax increment financing, bond financing, tax credits, tax abatements, land assembly, and brownfield redevelopment. Multiple in-class case studies will be used to help participants work through actual financial and regulatory problems.
Course Highlights:
• Housing, retail, office, industrial, hotel, and mixed use development • The regulatory and approval process including zoning and permitting • Assessing community involvement and political feasibility • Public, private and nonprofit financial modeling • Understanding the pro forma operating statement structure • Property valuation and capitalization rates • Brownfield redevelopment phase structure and liability • Request for qualification/proposal process
For more information and registration information: www.iedconline.org.
The purpose of this 8-course dinner and speed-dating style event is to bring together EDA members and key federal and provincial Ministry representatives to network, share information and explore potential partnerships.
Cancellations before October 19 will be less $25 admin fee. No refunds after October 20.
To book a room at the hotel on our group rates until September 25, https://www.coasthotels.com/rates, and use guest code CEP-GFC16146 where it says "Group".
For information about the hotel click here.
This course is the first in a series that will provide you with the knowledge and skills to become proficient at economic development. In choosing to educate yourself, you have chosen to improve the decisions that will have a significant effect on your community’s future. The function of economic development (ED) is often complex, and understanding your role in the process will be key both to the success of your career, and to the overall success of your economic development activities. This course is the 30,000-foot view of the process of economic development. It provides the theory and fundamentals of ED along with examples of how it can be applied. There is no one way to do ED. Each community, organization or volunteer group will do ED differently.
The primary goals of this course are to:
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Instructor: Holly Sorgen
For more information see www.aamdc.com
Join us at the Annual Alberta Urban Muncipalities Association convention.
EDA board members will be welcoming you to our booth. Come and visit them!
For more information and to register go to www.auma.ca.
Plan now to attend the 2018 conference. Take advantage of early bird rates. More details to come.
Plan now to attend the 2019 conference.
Your Economic Development Network in Alberta
Toll Free Phone: 1.866.671.8182
