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Regional Economic Development Plan
The Regional Economic Development Plan offers a vision and provides a framework for implementing an economic development planning process for the region. In addition, the plan sets forth core goals, key actions and priorities, including recommendations and new strategic initiatives, projects and programs to improve the region's economy and advance the health of the region and its municipalities.
The Target Industry Study is the identification of target industries for the region and each community.
Survival Through Regionalization: Effective Models for Intergovernmental Cooperation and Group Purchasing
In 2012, the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation awarded SNHPC a statewide community impact grant through their Statewide Regional Partnership Fund to carry out this project (click here to view the final report). The purpose is to implement a pilot program and statewide advocacy to expand resource sharing and group purchasing and to identify ways local government can save time, resources and money in the delivery of public services, programs and facilities. During the course of the project, five advisory Committee meetings were held to identify and evaluate the most pressing sharing needs and opportunities among local government in the region. Through this effort, a comprehensive inventory of existing and proposed inter-governmental agreements was developed; a survey of high priority needs and opportunities was conducted; a series of innovative and successful mutual sharing and group purchasing models and programs were developed and endorsed by the Advisory Committee; and the project became the feature article in the March/April 2014 New Hampshire Town and City magazine. Dennis Delay, economist with NH Center for Public Policy Studies and Chris Porter, former researcher with Local Government Center, participated on the project team with SNHPC.