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EDC 360 Community Assessment

A 160+ criteria audit of your economic development foundation.

Built by a team of former EDO leaders, EDC 360 shows you exactly where your community stands — and what to fix first.

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Scoring 150+ Criteria

Five foundational categories, one clear picture.

An experienced assessment of your economic development practices.

01

Organization

Efficiency in practices for economic development — SOPs, Articles of Incorporation, By-Laws, org & board structure, RFI response reviews, site visit protocols, BRE practices, and more.

02

Funding

Is your community taking advantage of every dollar available to it? This category reviews budgets, sources and uses of funds, appropriations status, financial health, and local incentives for attraction and growth.

03

Data

Data changes constantly. This category scores job skills understanding, industry clusters, support services, educational opportunities, and training — and whether your community is putting current data to work.

04

Inventory

Inventory isn't limited to sites and buildings. This category looks at infrastructure health, utility capacities, quality of life, housing, and the full checklist modern economies need to compete globally.

05

Marketing

Communicating your value proposition to a global marketplace is critical to growth. This category scores online platforms, relationships with site selectors, brand cohesion, and in-person networking.

EDC360

EDC360 report card, upon final delivery.

Upon completion of our process, your community receives a detailed report card of our findings across all five foundational principles that make for a high-performing economic development community and program. Some clients use it to build an immediate action plan — others use the data to launch into a full economic development strategic plan.

An actual client report card, redacted.

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Want more than a score?

EDC360+ bundles our core assessment with the next steps most communities need after seeing their results — training for your team and a right-sized plan to act on what we find. It's the same EDC360 process, plus a clear path forward, at a modest premium over the standalone assessment.

  • EDC360 Assessment — the full 150+ criteria review across all five foundational categories
  • ED101 — hands-on economic development training for your team
  • A light strategic framework — a right-sized action plan built from your results, without the cost of a full strategic planning engagement
Not sure which is the better fit for where your community is today? That's exactly what the discovery call below is for.
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An easy and cost-effective assessment for your community.

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