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Chmura Economics & Analytics is an applied economic consulting firm specializing in delivering advanced economic analysis. Our core competencies include economic consulting, economic impact studies, and our labor market software and data solutions. Our core audiences are corporations, economic development, workforce development, site selection, education, and staffing organizations. Chmura has the experience and expertise to transform data into information that drives effective strategy. Our premier technology platforms - JobsEQ®, and LaborEQ® - are in widespread use across the United States. Headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, Chmura was founded in 1999 and operates a regional office in Cleveland, Ohio.

Convergent Nonprofit Solutions is a national fundraising consulting firm that specializes in managing feasibility studies and capital campaigns for chambers, economic development organizations, community colleges, and other nonprofits. Capital campaigns can play a key role in community development efforts, including those related to both business and talent retention and attraction. Thanks to our extensive background in chamber, economic development, and workforce development fundraising throughout the country, we are able to provide your organization with valuable insights and customized solutions as to how a capital campaign can help you reach your goals.

SRP is a community-based, not-for-profit public power utility and the largest provider of electricity in the greater Phoenix metropolitan area, serving more than 1 million customers. SRP is also the metropolitan area’s largest supplier of water, delivering about 800,000 acre-feet annually to municipal, urban and agricultural water users.

A big city feel with a small-town charm, Avondale, Arizona is a fast-growing suburb of the West Valley. Avondale EDGE, the City of Avondale’s’ Office of Economic Development and Tourism, is the force behind making the city a premier lifestyle and business destination in the Southwest. Located just 15 minutes west of Downtown Phoenix, the city’s close proximity to major sporting venues, world class medical facilities and top tier housing is just one of its greatest assets. Avondale attracts innovative and cutting-edge technology and manufacturing companies while also welcoming and embracing its small business community. As a minority-majority city, locals and visitors alike get to experience the diverse cultures, creativity and rich history of our city’s entrepreneurs.

EcoMap was founded based on a simple premise: it should be easy to access information about what's happening in the ecosystems all around us. Whether we're dealing with a local business community or an entire industry, we think that everyone should be able to easily navigate every ecosystem, everywhere. At EcoMap, we're on a mission to build more equitable & accessible ecosystems through technology. We developed powerful technology that lets us digitize them at scale, so that any ecosystem building organization can use our products to understand, showcase, and engage their ecosystems.

Lightcast provides labor market data and analysis to help professionals make sound decisions in their regions. We tell stories with individual-level LMI data that are unmatched in the market. Our data, software, and consulting services help economic development professionals understand and communicate their communities’ workforce strengths, quickly respond to business inquiries, benchmark their regions against their peers, and boost their business services.

Pima Community College is an oasis of diversity in the Arizona desert. Since our founding in 1969, we have been committed to enhancing the academic, economic and cultural vitality of our region.

Serving 50,000 students annually, our mission is more critical than ever, as lifelong learning will be a necessity for keeping up with our rapidly evolving world. So we welcome everyone who seeks to realize their personal vision of the American Dream through the power and promise of higher education.

The race is on…for jobs, talent and capital investment. Is your organization ready? We can help. Founded in 2010, POWER 10 is a national capital campaign management firm specializing in campaigns to fund economic and community development programs at the city, county, region, and state levels. Our staff has managed more than 100 campaigns coast to coast and raised hundreds of millions of dollars. We are equally adept at managing first-time campaigns and “renewal” campaigns to fund second and subsequent programs. Founder and CEO Sean Mikula leads the firm together with Executive Vice President Amity Farrar and a team of professional Development Directors and Planners. We play the role of “quarterback” in the capital campaigns we manage, provide on-site management of day-to-day campaign operations, and “make the Ask.” What distinguishes POWER 10 in the marketplace? It is the talent and tenacity of our team, the consistent quality of our services, and the fresh ideas we bring to each client. We do not rent out campaign directors, we do not “pop in” to our clients’ offices once per month and dispense counsel - we are “hands on,” all in and focused on WINNING.

Resource Development Group (RDG) was established in 1995 to provide experienced fundraising counsel to economic and community development organizations. RDG has worked with a wide variety of clients including Chambers of Commerce, Economic Development Corporations, Community Improvement Corporations, and Regional Partnerships. Our specific expertise includes managing multi-faceted fundraising initiatives in complex regions comprised of multiple political jurisdictions. We build organizations that build communities! We have managed more than 200 economic/community development funding projects generating over $2 billion in operating revenue for our clients. In addition, we also consult in areas designed to improve your organization’s ability to provide crucial solutions for your communities.  Our products range from “turn-key” capital campaigns to specific consulting solutions, all designed with your unique challenges in mind. 

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The Greater Yuma Arizona region is made up of four states and two countries, serving a population of over 1.5 million people. Our unique location and assets allow for easy access to international and southwest markets with the ability to deliver goods in a single day truck haul. Our growing defense and aerospace industry thrive in our optimum climate and state of the art infrastructure support for research and development, testing and manufacturing. This region is entering the Space Launch sector due to our enviable controlled airspace and facilities that support the needs of companies launching to lower earth orbit, as well as the companies needing to launch and test ballistics. Available labor shed from all four states makes this an enviable location. 

The Town of Oro Valley is located in northern Pima County between the Catalina and Tortolita mountain ranges, surrounded by dramatic views and wide-open spaces. Well known for its comfortable climates, outdoor adventures, art and live music scene, botanical gardens, and sporting venues, Oro Valley has a new reputation: the Upscale Tech Mecca of Southern Arizona. Global bioscience, aerospace and defense, and high-tech companies are well-established and thriving in Oro Valley. The Town is where scientific collaboration, state-of-the-art technology, and business opportunity come together to create innovation synergy as companies such as Roche Tissue Diagnostics, Meggitt Securaplane, Sigma Tech, Simpleview and Nikon Research Corp call Oro Valley home.