It’s Economic Development Week!

NOTE: This event has already taken place.

The International Economic Development Council (IEDC) has designated the week of May 6 – 11, 2019 as Economic Development Week. We invite you to take part in this North America-wide campaign that consists of raising awareness of the economic development profession and the positive impact economic development efforts have on our communities, sectors, and economy.

How can you get involved?

Easy! We encourage practitioners, and communities, sectors, and organizations that support economic development to make some noise about economic development on social media during Economic Development Week!

For each social media posts, we ask that you use the hashtags:
#EconDevWeekNL, #EDW2019 and tag @EDANL709.

Post Example for your Employer:
Add a Photo
This is Person’s Name, Title with Employer and member of @EDANL709.
Person’s Name is here to help businesses start and grow in our community!
#EconDevWeekNL #EDW2019

Post Ideas for you:

• Highlight a recent project you’re working on
• Note your favourite part of the job
• Describe your role in 10 words or less
• Talk about your expertise
• Showcase some success stories

To commemorate Economic Development Week last year, economic development organizations from across the country worked together to produce a short video that demonstrates the importance of economic development to the fabric of a community.

Feel free to continue to share the Economic Development video through social media again this year: https://youtu.be/pWUSPghuo9g.

Municipalities
Should you wish to table a proclamation for the week of May 6-11, a sample proclamation can be found here.