EVERYDAYNOMICS™
From Everyday Citizens To Community Economists
The First of Its Kind
21st Century Community Economic Analysis
Made Easy for Everyday People.
Everydaynomics™ (2025-2026)
Community Economics Meets Farm Economics!
Thanks to Generous Sponsorship by the Policy Research Center
Located at Alcorn State University
FREE To Participate
What if farmers weren’t seen as “just producers”...and communities weren’t told to “just consume”?
You care about your community and you really want to make a difference.
What if both were seen — and equipped — as partners in building strong, resilient, local economies?
You want to see improvement in your local economy, but you just don’t know what to do.
COMMUNITY ECONOMICS MEETS FARM ECONOMICS is the first SPOTLIGHT SERIES from Everydaynomics™ — a growing movement turning everyday citizens into community economists — practical, strategic builders of resilient local economies.
This series is for:
- Farmers and ranchers ready to be seen as local economic anchors
- Communities that see farms as critical infrastructure and want to keep wealth local
- Local leaders and youth ready to create resilient local economies
What you’ll get:
- Tools to understand how your local economy really works
- Strategies to build partnerships that grow local wealth
- A network of farmers and citizens strengthening community resilience
Farms and communities are not separate. They rise and fall together. Let’s grow stronger — together.
The Core Everydaynomics™ Program
The first of its kind course features 12 hours of virtual, on-demand training. You’ll learn how to become a community economist and lead the transformation of your community’s economy. Get ready to work with other trained and like-minded members of your community to initiate a community economic development strategy that makes sense for your local economy.
Created for everyday people just like you, our program will equip you with:
- A basic understanding of your community’s economy and how it works
- Knowledge for better decision-making/action-taking, which can deliver innovative, sustainable, and systemic change in your community
- A set of user-friendly tools for analyzing and transforming data into useful information to be used in telling your community’s economic story
- A common framework, language, and vocabulary for communication, cooperation, negotiation, and deliberation
Unit I: Introduction to Community Economics
You’ll learn key definitions and terminologies used in community economics and some unique intersections of community economics with agriculture, cooperative extension, economic and environmental justice. You’ll learn about theory of change and the wealth creation/wealth building approach to community economics and gain mastery of certain tools like community impact assessment, cross-sectional and time-series analysis of data.
Module 1. Understanding Your Local Economy
Module 2. Is Your Community or Village Being Strategic?
Module 3. Condition and Performance of Your Local Economy
Unit II: Keeping Wealth, Income and Jobs Local
You’ll learn how to keep wealth, income and jobs within your local economy by understanding how local wealth and local demand are created. You’ll be able to identify local strengths as well as being able to identify local/regional market opportunities. You’ll learn how cooperatives can create both individual and community wealth that sticks. Using local farms and food systems as the example, you will learn about supply chains, value chains, and location quotients.
Module 4. Understanding Local Demand and Supply
Module 5. Identifying Market Opportunities
Module 6. Identifying Local Strengths
Unit III. Local Engines of Growth and Development
You’ll learn how to identify exporting and importing industries, determine the competitiveness of local farms/firms and their capacity to meet local and nonlocal demand. You’ll learn how anchor institutions like HBCUs and cooperatives can be local engines of economic mobility, growth and development. You’ll learn about industry and occupation clusters and whether or not your community is ready for the knowledge economy and innovation. You’ll learn how to use cluster analysis and interpret your community’s innovation index.
Module 7. Exporting and Importing Industries
Module 8. Industry and Occupation Clusters
Module 9. Your Community’s Innovation Capacity
Unit IV: Telling Your Community’s Economic Story
You’ll learn how to tell your community’s economic story by understanding economic impact, identifying your at-risk populations and neighborhoods, and the level of private investment and public spending (like the Farm Bill and federal commissions and authorities). You’ll be exposed to economic impact analysis, GIS spatial analysis, and qualitative analysis.
Module 10. Measuring impact
Module 11. At-risk populations and neighborhoods
Module 12. Public spending and private investment
Unit V: Presentation and Graduation
You’ll present your Community Economists Plan (CEP) for your community and receive your certification as a Community Economist and a graduate of the Institute.
Everydaynomics™
Community Economics Meets Farm Economics
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Become A Change Agent In Your Community
Everydaynomics™
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Core Everydaynomics™ Program
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12 hours of virtual on-demand training
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12 Live Office Hours
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1-Page Community Economists Plan (CEP)
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Community Economists Certificate
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Lifetime Access
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Free Due to Generous Sponsorships
Get ready to initiate a
community economic development
strategy that makes sense
for your
local economy.
Become a 21st Century Community Economist and transform your community.
Our Generous Sponsors
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