This document outlines the process of community economic development. It discusses identifying stakeholders and getting them involved in the process. It also discusses forming goals and a mission, evaluating the project as it matures, and integrating different organizations and individuals to address comprehensive planning, resource use, human resource development, and other areas. The overall goal is to educate and assist communities in developing assets to address problems and improve quality of life.

8. BIOEN4: Community Economic
 Unit 1 – Community Preparedness:
Understanding the issues & opportunities
associated with bioenergy development
 Unit 2 – Case Study Analysis
 Unit 3 – The Educator’s Role as Facilitator:
Asking the right questions
 Unit 4 – Community Economic
Development Issues

9. Community Development - is a process to
educate, counsel, promote, and cooperate with
communities (people) as they develop assets to
seek solutions and solve problems, directly or
indirectly affecting quality of life.
*After a meeting or two re-visit the question of:
Are all of the stakeholders represented?

10. HOW DO PROJECTS GET STARTED
 INITIATED BY LOCAL  Typically the project has
ENTITY been identified by local
– Individual residents and act in
– Or Group response to that need.
 INITIATED BY  The agency has a
AGENCY mandate, charge, deadline,
– Local
or other need to be met.
– State
– Federal

11. IDENTIFICATION OF STAKEHOLDERS
& GETTING THEM TO THE TABLE
 Group Processing:  Have the local people:
– Bring in a neutral party  Make the contacts
– Identify what  Bring the representatives
stakeholders are to the table
present
 Set the date, time, location
– Identify what
stakeholders are not  Give public notice
present  Open the door – host the
– Identify representatives meeting
of those stakeholder
groups

12. FORMING, STORMING,
NORMING, & PERFORMING
 Dedication
– The facilitator needs to make the commitment to stay
the course conceptually and time wise
– Volunteers must make a similar commitment
 Developmental phases are not mutually exclusive
 Ground Rules
– Must be established
– Must apply to everyone

13. GROUND RULES APPLY TO
EVERYONE
 All opinions are valued
 Participants listen respectfully
 Everyone is equal
 Everyone is heard
 No one dominates discussion
 Respectful disagreement is OK, and may be
necessary to move ahead.
 Focus on the common ground

14. MISSION & GOALS
 Must be acceptable to all
 Must be clear – understandable
 Easy to repeat & articulate
 Signed off on by participants – a conceptual
contract

15. AS THE PROJECT MATURES
 Evaluate the situation
 Re-visit the mission & goals
 Make other needed adjustments
 Other

16. The community development approach is the integration of
organizations and individuals which have environmental
knowledge, technical skills and fiscal resources in the following
areas:
• Comprehensive Planning
• Resource Use Issues
residential – housing/onsite sewage
agricultural – farming/forestry
recreational
economic development – business & Industry
retention/expansion, etc.
• Human Resource Development

17. THANK YOU
QUESTIONS, COMMENTS,
SUGGESTIONS?
 Dan Downing
 University of Missouri
 205 Ag. Eng. Building
 Columbia, Mo 65211
 downingd@missouri.edu

18. Community Development - is a process to
educate, counsel, promote, and cooperate with
communities (people) as they develop assets to
seek solutions and solve problems, directly or
indirectly affecting quality of life.
*After a meeting or two re-visit the question of:
Are all of the stakeholders represented?