Written by Jessica Wandless and Bo Beaulieu and Breanna Burbridge. PCRD will be participating in this year’s Purdue Day of Giving on Wednesday, April 27th for the first time ever! Your generous gift will help support and expand the innovative…
Written by Roberto Gallardo and Benjamin St. Germain. In 2019 one of us wrote two Medium posts introducing a new metric related to digital inclusion called digital distress. Since then, we know of several organizations and communities that have used…
Written by Bo Beaulieu, Roberto Gallardo, Indraneel Kumar, Jessica Wandless and Breanna Burbridge. The Purdue Center for Regional Development (PCRD) is committed to supporting innovative regional (multi-county) activities by guiding the development and implementation of high quality comprehensive economic development…
AmeriCorps Week is celebrated every March. This year AmeriCorps Week is celebrated March 13-19. During AmeriCorps Week we recognize the commitment of the millions of Americans who have chosen to serve their country through AmeriCorps. We are thankful for all…
A post COVID world is different in many respects but perhaps the one that stands out the most is that it is more digital than the pre COVID world. While digitization was in full force before the pandemic, COVID accelerated…
“Professional business consulting” may sound expensive and intimidating to small and moderate-sized business owners alike. Prefix the word, “free” to the statement and it may resonate with some as cheap, that there is a hidden cost, and perhaps the service…
A new Research and Policy Insights (RPI) report released by the Purdue Center for Regional Development (PCRD) last week highlighted the changing nature of Indiana’s workforce over the May 2021 to October 2021 time period. The report, which I was…
The global pandemic of 2020 has affected almost every citizen of every nation. It has also affected different programs and caused delays in industries and services. One particular program that has experienced disruption is the 2015-2020 American Community Survey (ACS)–…