RIDGWAY — The North Central Pennsylvania Planning and Development Commission announced that it has received a 2023 Aliceann Wohlbruck Impact Award from the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) for the implementation of its Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and Resiliency Plan 2022-2026 Interactive Dashboard.
Award-winning projects will be recognized during NADO’s 2023 Annual Training Conference, held in Cleveland, Ohio, on Nov. 7-10. The 2023 class of award recipients consists of 108 projects from 71 organizations spanning 28 states.
The CEDS innovative dashboard will enhance data analysis and decision-making by drilling down and filtering vital information for the six-county region. It will focus on population, poverty rate, unemployment rate, median household income, labor force participation and educational attainment. This state-of-the-art dashboard offers a comprehensive view of economic, community, infrastructure, human services, and technology programs.
As guided by the Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and Resiliency Plan 2022-2026 the dashboard priorities are based on key themes discovered during the stakeholder input phase of the SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis. The CEDS Resilience Subcommittee utilized that information and determined the following four priorities to serve as the foundation for the Interactive Dashboard: infrastructure, workforce and entrepreneurship, natural resources and tourism, and quality of life. The dashboard will provide key metrics that allow the analysis of the success of each county or success in the region. The dashboard is available online at: http://northcentralpaceds.com.
