The Network’s own research highlights the important role states can play in a local government’s recovery. Building on this report,, we developed a partnership with MassDevelopment to pilot a Massachusetts State Resource Network in 2016 . Two years later and with the support of Arnold Ventures (formerly the Laura and John Arnold Foundation), the Network launched a New Jersey State Resource Network.
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Ohio has a concentration of communities that have struggled to regain the population and economic activity they lost during the Great Recession. A 2016 study by the Greater Ohio Policy Center showed that Ohio’s legacy cities experienced population loss, lower labor force participation, falling housing values and rising poverty in the five years after the Great Recession officially ended in June 2009. The Network, in cooperation with the Greater Ohio Policy Center, Arnold Ventures and the Just Transition Fund, is excited to announce the creation of the Ohio State Resource Network which brings the Network’s comprehensive, tailored approach and proven tools to Ohio communities.
read moreIn 2018, the State of New Jersey’s Department of Community Affairs (DCA) and the National Resource Network jointly launched the New Jersey State Resource Network, a collaborative effort designed to improve participating cities’ long-term financial health and economic competitiveness.
read moreIn early 2016, MassDevelopment (through its Transformative Development Initiative) and the Network launched MassSRN – a collaborative effort designed to increase participating cities’ economic competitiveness. Massachusetts was the first state to pilot such a partnership leveraging federal, state and local funds to deliver customized, comprehensive and cross-cutting technical assistance to its cities.
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