THE PROGRAM
The Georgia Economic Placemaking Collaborative is a two-year place-based economic development program that provides participating communities with education, facilitation, technical assistance, networking, peer learning, and incentives to help identify their community assets and develop a locally based placemaking strategy.
- YEAR ONE: education, visioning, and planning.
- YEAR TWO: development projects, funding, and implementation.
THE COMMUNITY TEAMS
The Georgia Economic Placemaking Collaborative emphasizes the importance of equitable and inclusive community engagement in the development project process. The Collaborative is designed to work for cities with differing demographics. The participating cities vary in size, location, and demographics.Assembling a diverse community team is required for cities to participate in the Collaborative. Each community team consists of: elected officials, city staff, members of downtown development organizations, chambers of commerce, faith-based organizations, local associations, business owners/operators, and residents. The Collaborative assists the community teams in identifying projects that reflect the unique cultural and historic character of the community.
Partner Organizations
The success of the Collaborative is the variety of statewide organizational partnerships that finance, support, and manage the program. The Collaborative partners are:- Georgia Cities Foundation
- Georgia Municipal Association
- Georgia Department of Community Affairs
- Georgia Cities Solutions
- Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia
- Georgia Tech Center for Economic Development Research
- Georgia Conservancy
- Georgia Department of Community Affairs
- Georgia Power