Source: Ohio State University Extension
Contact: Nancy Bowen-Ellzey (Field Specialist, Community Economics)
E-mail: bowen-ellzey.1@osu.edu
Phone: 701-349-3249
Staffing, funding, and sustaining collaborative economic development organizations that provide the full range of programming require resources and cooperation. Extension-led economic development organizations, because they are tied to university resources grounded in research and education and without local jurisdictional bias, can build public trust and cooperative partnerships that help to broaden funding support for economic development programming.
