The Northeast Ohio Four County Regional Planning and Development Organization (NEFCO) General Policy Board adopted the 2023-2028 Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) on January 18, 2023. The CEDS is a regional economic development plan, which aims to promote prosperity, equity, and resiliency in NEFCO’s four-county region of Portage, Stark, Summit, and Wayne Counties. NEFCO, which...
On July 20, 2022, the NEFCO General Policy Board approved the Economic Recovery and Resiliency (ER&R) Plan. NEFCO received a CARES Act recovery assistance grant in July 2020 from the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) to work with communities and organizations in Portage, Stark, Summit, and Wayne Counties to develop a comprehensive economic recovery and...