EVERYDAYNOMICS™

From Everyday Citizens To Community Economists

The First of Its Kind
21st Century Community Economic Analysis
Made Easy for Everyday People.

You care about your community and you really want to make a difference.

You want to see improvement in your local economy, but you just don’t know what to do.

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

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.

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 firms 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 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.

2024 Everydaynomics™ Bootcamp
Special Tuskegee University Environmental Justice Academy Session
September 10 - December 7th 2024

Live Office Hours: First and Last In-Person (Montgomery, AL)
2nd-5th via Zoom (To be determined on Sept 10)

FREE To Participate ($950 Value) Thanks to Generous Sponsorship

Become A Change Agent In Your Community

Choose the option that fits your situation

Everydaynomics™ On-Demand (EO)

Self-paced
$ 450
  • Core Everydaynomics™ Program
  • 12 hours of virtual on-demand training
  • 1-Page Community Economists Plan (CEP)
  • Access: Six Months
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Everydaynomics™ Bootcamp (EB)

Certification Program
Special Fall Session
Free
  • Core Everydaynomics™ Program
  • 12 hours of virtual on-demand training
  • 6 Live Office Hours
  • 1-Page Community Economists Plan (CEP)
  • Community Economists Certificate
  • Access: One Year
  • Free Due to Generous Sponsorships
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Scholarships
Available

Advanced Training

Application Required - Coming Soon

Everydaynomics™ Cooperative Entrepreneur (ECE)

Launch Cooperative Enterprises
$ 1,950
  • Core Everydaynomics™ Program (Prerequisite)
  • 6 Month Program
  • 24 Live Office Hours
  • 1-Page Cooperative Development Plan (CDP)
  • Cooperative Entrepreneur Certificate
  • Access: One Year
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Coming September 2025

Everydaynomics™ Certified Instructor (ECI)

license to teach the Everydaynomics™ Program
$ 4,950
  • Core Everydaynomics™ Program (Prerequisite)
  • 6 Month Program
  • 36 Live Office Hours
  • 1- Page Certified Instructor Plan (CIP)
  • Certified Instructor Certificate
  • Access: Lifetime
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Coming 2025

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.

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Our Generous Sponsors

Alcorn State University

Socially Disadvantaged Farmers And Ranchers Policy Research Center

A Community-Gold Sponsor

Enviva

World's largest producer of wood pellets, a renewable alternative to coal.

A Village Sponsor