Community and Economic Development
2009 Regional Report Card
To improve, we must understand where we are and how we are doing compared to others. The Future of the Piedmont Foundation, United Way of Danville-Pittsylvania County, and Danville Regional Foundation have created the 2009 Regional Report Card using data collected by others in federal, state, and local governments as of December 15, 2009 and, whenever possible, comparable data from five years earlier. Trends are shown as positive, negative or inconclusive.
The Regional Report Card is backed up by a much larger, more detailed document, Report Card - Background Information. Originally prepared by Tyler Laughinghouse and Carlethia Smith, 2009 interns with the Danville Regional Foundation, the report contains active links to the source of each statistic.
We hope that people and institutions throughout this region will use this information to better understand changes occurring, target opportunities for additional investments of time and energy, and change the conversations to focus on how we make the Region a better place for all.
If you think the information in this report is incorrect or incomplete, we hope you will point us to the right information at an independent and verifiable source on the web. Comments and suggestions are always welcome. Please send your ideas to Karl Stauber at Danville Regional Foundation.
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2009 Regional Report Card - Background Information
Other Reports, News and Information
Presentation on November 17, 2009 by James H. Johnson, Jr., PhD - Weathering the Storm
UVA Social Capital Survey - Full Report
UVA Social Capital Survey - Narrative Only
UVA Social Capital Survey - Presentation
Assessing the Economic Competitiveness of the Danville, Virginia Region
Given its locational advantages and natural attributes, the Danville Region has the opportunity to become a highly attractive place to live and do business. However, many challenges must be overcome if the community is to become highly competitive in the 21st century knowledge-based economy. Specifically, the Danville Region must (a) shed it image as an old-line manufacturing center, (b) embrace a more balanced approach to economy development by assigning equal weight to industrial recruitment and home-grown entrepreneurial ventures, (c) develop sustainable strategies for both financing and solving the region's pressing social ills, and (d) resolve its human capital problem.
In this report, CFED provides an insider's view of the region's Community and Economic Development.
Changing the Conversation: A Community and Economic Development Assessment of the Danville Region
Summary: In response to an invitation from MDC, Inc., CFED conducted an assessment of the needs, opportunities, and institutional capacity for economic and community development in the Danville region. The region includes Caswell County, North Carolina; Pittsylvania County and the City of Danville, Virginia. The project goal was to understand and strengthen the fundamental economic base to expand opportunities for prosperity to touch all people of the Danville region.
CFED brought to this work its mission of expanding economic opportunity by helping Americans to start and grow businesses, attend and graduate from college, own homes, and save for their children's and own economic futures. CFED's robust experience in the practice, research, and policy fields demonstrates that economic and community development is only successful when its benefits are widely shared across the community. Read the assessment [PDF]
DRF is committed to providing high quality data that organizations use to better understand needs, opportunities and impacts. This data is periodically updated and will be expanded over time. All the information is provided from other sources.