Community
-
mRNA Vaccines: The Next Generation Tool to Fight Infections
August 2021Vaccines have been used by humans for over 225 years to prevent serious illness or death from infectious agents. Immunization currently prevents 4–5 million deaths every year (World Health Organ... -
Utilizing Secondary Data for Business Retention and Expansion Planning and Reporting
August 2021Before implementing a Business Retention Expansion (BRE) program, community partners and professionals often identify reliable, existing data to help develop a better understanding of the community an... -
Joint Economic Development Districts
September 2021In 1993, the Ohio General Assembly passed legislation enabling local communities to create special-purpose districts known as Joint Economic Development Districts (JEDDs). Since that time, the legisla... -
Foreign-Trade Zones: Helping Companies Compete Globally
May 2021Foreign-trade zones (FTZs) are sites within the United States that are legally considered outside of United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) territory for the purpose of duties. They were cr... -
The Value of Community Strategic Plans in Corporate Location Decision-Making
December 2020Strategic planning is the ability to act early to avoid challenges in the future when they become harder to manage. Strategic planning offers the opportunity to make decisions that follow a vision. It... -
The Role of the Land-Grant University Cooperative Extension in Addressing Community Business Retention and Expansion (BRE) Programs
December 2020Whether it is through an ongoing, community-based Business Retention and Expansion (BRE) program or specific community needs-assessment, Cooperative Extension professionals maintain an awareness of co... -
Growing Hardy Figs in Ohio
May 2020The fig (Ficus carica L.) has been grown as a fruit crop for many centuries and is even considered an ancient fruit (Stover et al., 2007). Many people all over the world have enjoyed the edible fig; w... -
Global Climate Change: Update 2020
January 2020The topic of global climate change has emerged over the past decade as the most widely discussed environmental subject in the world. It also shows no sign of taking a lower profile in coming years. Th... -
Planning and Conducting Effective Public Meetings
December 2019Public meetings and hearings can serve many purposes. A public meeting could be a means to solicit feedback on proposed regulatory changes, allow for citizen responses to proposed changes, create awar... -
Tech Recipe: Starting A Scholastic Drone Racing Team
December 2019Schools interested in starting a drone racing team may have some basic questions, such as, “Is drone racing legal?”, “When did drone racing start?”, “How does drone racin... -
Rural Transportation Programs and Their Benefits
October 2019Did you know that Ohio’s county and local governments can play a critical role in strengthening community transportation resources and providing public transportation options?
According to Th... -
Rural Neighbors—Living and Working Together
October 2019As Ohio's population grows, farm and nonfarm families are increasingly living and sometimes working alongside each other. Farmers who are near the metropolitan areas have been familiar with this t... -
Port Authorities as an Economic Development Tool for Local Government
August 2019Port authorities can be useful economic development tools for local governments. With a wide range of powers provided by Section 4582 of the Revised Code of the State of Ohio, port authorities can own... -
Accepting SNAP Benefits at Ohio Farmers Markets
November 2018The number of farmers markets in the United States has increased by almost 7,000; from 1,755 in 1994 to 8,687 in 2017 (USDA, 2017a). And while this growth in the number of markets has increased acces... -
Community Service
November 2017Community Service is a part of 4-H, beginning with pledging our hands to larger service. 4-H members and volunteers have historically given back to their community through a variety of volunteer effor... -
Preparing Newsprint for Bedding
August 2017The format that Americans read for news is changing. A 2012 study indicated 23 percent of people living in the United States said they had read a print newspaper. That is half the number who did so in... -
Code Literacy: Increasing K-12 Coding Education in Ohio
July 2017
There are many names for coders: computer programmers, software developers, computer scientists, software engineers, etc. But regardless of the name, coders are problem-solvers and relish logic an... -
Local Food Council Formation Planning Guide
July 2017The local food movement has grown significantly across the nation during the past 10 years. Feenstra describes this as a response, in part, to the disconnection of people from the “sources of th... -
A History of Packaging
May 2017Very early in time, food was consumed where it was found. Families and villages were self-sufficient, making and catching what they used. When containers were needed, nature provided gourds, shells a... -
Maps, Apps and Mobile Media Marketing
February 2017How the world communicates is changing (Cornelisse et al. 2011). Currently, 94 percent of smartphone users conduct business on their phones, and 87 percent use a search engine at least once a day (Jar...