
Guest Blog: My Journey to Becoming a Certified Economic Developer
This week’s blog post is a guest post by PPR Strategies’s Director of Operations, Sophie Smith. If you’re one of our clients, you will already
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This week’s blog post is a guest post by PPR Strategies’s Director of Operations, Sophie Smith. If you’re one of our clients, you will already
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At the 2025 Main Street Maryland Conference, one topic came up in multiple sessions and conversations: the quiet disappearance of third places—and what that means
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When we launched EDO Breakthrough in 2024, our mission was earnest: we wanted to put relatable, boots-on-the-ground economic developers front and center. We sought out
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