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Council on Competitiveness
The Council on Competitiveness is a non-profit, non-partisan, policy action group that sets an action agenda to drive US competitiveness and economic leadership domestically and in world markets. The Council focuses on innovation as the engine of US competitiveness, on cutting edge workforce development, and in benchmarking national economic performance in a global economy.
Corporation for Economic Enterprise
CFED is a nonprofit organization that expands economic opportunity. Established in 1979 as the Corporation for Enterprise Development, CFED works to ensure that every person can participate in, contribute to, and benefit from the economy by bringing together community practice, public policy, and private markets. They identify promising ideas; test and refine them in communities to find out what works; craft policies and products to help good ideas reach scale; and foster new markets to achieve greater economic impact. CFED produces an annual "Report Card" on the state of financial security in the United States.
National Governor's Association
The NGA is the "collective voice" of America's governor's and promotes the sharing of best practices in state leadership. It has formed an innovation America task force designed to monitor the pace of effective innovation strategies across the states. (December 2006) As this agenda unfolds new measures of innovation may be developed by the NGA's Center for Best Practices. The NGA and the Information Technology and Innovation Institute are co-publishing an updated New Economy Index in 2007.
Relevant Indicator Projects
Congressional Economic Indicators
The Joint Economic Committee issues a monthly publication entitled "Economic Indicators", containing graphs, charts, and data sets spanning such topics as total output, income, and spending, employment and wages, production and business activity, money, credit, and security markets, federal finance, and international statistics.
The World Economic Forum
This well respected index gauges global competitiveness through institutional, macroeconomic, market efficiency, technological and process infrastructure metrics.
Productivity and Competitiveness Indicators, HM Treasury, UK
This document, The UK Productivity and Competitiveness Indicators 2005, sets out the latest update on the Government's productivity and competitiveness indicators. Tracking the UK's progress on productivity is especially important in the context of the rapid technological, social and structural change associated with globalization.
Relevant Regional Indicator Projects
Arizona-Sonora Regional Economic Indicators
These indicators measure the Arizona and Sonora economic region's economic competitiveness in the context of the knowledge based economy and NAFTA.
Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank District Economic Indicators
Partners
A comprehensive public metropolitan research university enrolling more than 60,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students on four campuses, ASU is a federation of unique colleges, schools, departments, and research institutes that comprise close-knit but diverse academic communities that are international in scope. ASU champions intellectual and cultural diversity, and welcomes students from all 50 states and more than one hundred nations across the globe.
ASU has a vision to be a New American University, promoting excellence in its research and among its students and faculty, increasing access to its educational resources and working with communities to positively impact social and economic development.
The Arizona Community Foundation and its 13 Affiliates are a statewide philanthropy and partnership of donors, staff, volunteers, nonprofit organizations and the community working together to empower and align philanthropic interests with community needs and build a legacy of giving.
Founded in 1978, the Arizona Community Foundation manages 885 component funds , including 30 supporting organizations, with endowment and trust assets exceeding $556 million.
Composed of local leaders with diverse backgrounds, ACF's dedicated Board of Directors guides the Foundation's community partnerships and its endowment.
The important work of a community foundation is a process of gathering, growing, giving and galvanizing.
Arizona Department of Commerce
Through leadership and collaborative partnerships, Commerce's mission is to create vibrant communities and a globally competitive Arizona economy.
Workforce and Business Development supports entrepreneurs, small businesses, minority and women-owned enterprises and industry sectors.
Marketing and Business Attraction promotes Arizona as a premier location for business expansion and location.
The Energy Office encourages energy efficiency and renewable energy deployment, provides energy information and policy advice, and supports reduced utility costs and improved comfort for Arizona's low-income residents.
Strategic Investment and Research serves as the state's clearinghouse for economic information and strategic research related to Arizona's economy.
Community Development focuses on local capacity-building by providing technical and financial assistance to cities, towns, counties, and tribal communities on land use planning, economic development, downtown revitalization, public involvement, smart growth best practices, military land use compatibility, and the complexities of zoning.
The Arizona Republic is Arizona’s leading provider of news and information and continues to be the state’s most trusted, read newspaper since 1890. The largest paper in the Southwest, The Republic reaches approximately 1.5 million readers per week.
Over the years, the significant population growth and socioeconomic variety of Phoenix has led The Arizona Republic to become the foundation of a multimedia presence that now includes such products as azcentral.com and La Voz. Standing alone, The Republic is Arizona’s premier source for a breadth of information including hard-hitting news, local coverage, things to do and investigative stories.
The Arizona Republic is owned by Gannett Co., Inc., a publicly held news and information company that operates newspapers and television stations across the U.S. Other Gannett holdings in Arizona include KPNX Channel 12 in Phoenix and the Tucson Citizen.
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