The Yellowhead REDA serves as a catalyst to stimulate, initiate, promote and foster economic development within the region. REDA's range of services and their components include:
- Job creation
- Positive growth stimulation
- Uniting efforts to improve the region economically
- Adding vibrancy to the region's communities
- Preserving and enhancing the region's way of life
- Open and encouraging to all organizations and businesses
- Facilitating beneficial partnerships within and amongst regions
- Planning for the future
- Coordinating administrative and economic services throughout the region
- Investigating the expansion or implementation of other economic development programs and services within the region
- Acting as a business resource centre and providing assistance for entrepreneurs to develop a business plan and access capital
- Educating and involving the region's youth in existing opportunities
- Implementing training programs to enhance individual skill and knowledge
- Administering the region's Small Business Loans Association Program
- Attracting and promoting funding opportunities for projects within the region
- Initiating, negotiating, and pursuing beneficial community economic development initiatives, projects and opportunities
- Coordinating and facilitating the application and implementation of projects
|