EVERYDAYNOMICS™

From Everyday Citizens To Community Economists

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

Everydaynomics™ Spotlight Series

"Community Economics Meets Farm Economics!"

Thanks to Generous Sponsors
On-Demand Course is FREE To Everyone

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.

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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 terminology used in community economics, along with unique intersections with agriculture, cooperative extension, economics, and environmental resilience. You’ll learn about logic models and the wealth-creation/wealth-building approach to community economics, and gain mastery of tools such as community impact assessment, cross-sectional, and time-series data analysis.

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 and 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 Supply, Demand, and Industrial Structure
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 by understanding how to 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 examining public spending (such as the Farm Bill and federal commissions and authorities). You’ll be exposed to economic impact analysis and GIS spatial analysis.

Module 10. Measuring impact
Module 11. At-risk populations and neighborhoods
Module 12. Public spending

Unit V: Presentation and Graduation

For groups of 30 or more, 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™ Courses

Become A Change Agent In Your Community

Community Economics
Meets Farm Economics

$ 70
  • 15 Hours On-Demand Virtual Recorded Training
  • The Core Everydaynomics™ Program
  • 1-Page Community Economists Plan (CEP)
  • Community Economist Certificate With Specialization in Farm Economics
  • Live Office Hours via Zoom only for groups of 30 or more
  • Presentation and Graduation Ceremony only for groups of 30 or more
Under Revision

Core Program

$ 60
  • 12 Hours Virtual Recorded Training
  • The Core Everydaynomics™ Program
  • 1-Page Community Economists Plan (CEP)
  • Community Economists Certificate
  • Live Office Hours via Zoom only for groups of 30 or more
  • Presentation and Graduation Ceremony only for groups of 30 or more
Under Revision

Multi-Stakeholder Cooperatives

$ 35
  • 7 hours On-Demand Virtual Recorded Training
  • Multi-Stakeholder Certificate of Completion
  • Live Office Hours via Zoom only for groups of 30 or more
  • Presentation and Graduation Ceremony only for groups of 30 or more
Under Revision

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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