Community and Economic Development

Community Visioning Program

The small community of Lisbon was selected to participate in Iowa's Living Roadways Community Visioning Program in 2011.

GPS + iPhones = Better data for safer routes and healthier kids

Participants in the I-WALK (Iowans Walking Assessment Logistics Kit) project enter "walkability" data into an iPhone, which is then uploaded to an online digital map.

Mississippi Explorers

Visitors from throughout the country learn about life in Iowa through Road Scholar, an educational tourism program.

Iowa House Ribbon-cutting Ceremony

Visitors from throughout the country learn about life in Iowa through Road Scholar, an educational tourism program.

Municipal Professional Institute

Teresa Rotschafer, finance director for the City of Johnston, presents the elements of a city financial system at the 2011 Municipal Professionals Institute.

Special Places Mapping

Chris Riggert, ISU student intern, helps youth identify the special places in Monroe at a special places mapping workshop during the 2011 community visioning process.

Latest Updates
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The Office of State and Local Government Programs is offering two new classes in advanced accounting and comprehensive annual financial report (CAFR) preparation in July. The registration deadline is June 1, 2012. The advanced accounting course will be two days combining lecture, discussion and exercises to focus on accrual accounting within government. CAFR Preparation participants will learn how to prepare a comprehensive annual financial report after the year-end accrual conversions are complete. Additional information can be found under the Office of State and Local Government Programs page.

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ISU Extension CED to be featured in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival this summer. Read more about the exhibit and CED's involvement.

Communities News

Iowa State will be on display at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival this summer

Post date: May 9, 2012 12:03 PM

Extension CED will be featured in Iowa State University's exhibit at the Smithsonian's Folklife Festival this summer. The exhibit, "Transforming Communities: Design in Action,...

Resident uses an iPhone to identify barriers.

ISU Extension landscape architect offers expertise on facilitated VGI

Post date: April 17, 2012 12:53 PM

Christopher Seeger, ISU Extension landscape architect, is sharing his expertise on walkability and facilitated VGI (volunteer geographic information) with the...

Iowa State University offers Introduction to GIS online during summer 2012

Post date: April 10, 2012 02:57 PM

Iowa State University Department of Community and Regional Planning (CRP) offers a 3-credit Introduction to GIS course online during the summer semester. The introductory level course...

Extension CED workshop will help planners interpret 2010 Census data using GIS

Post date: April 5, 2012 01:03 PM

This May, Mônica Haddad, ISU associate professor of community and regional planning, will be conducting a one-day workshop to help planners interpret and use the 2010 Census data utilizing...

Road scholar participants posed next to an Amish buggy

Registration is open for the 2012 Road Scholar Program

Post date: April 2, 2012 03:32 PM

Would you like to experience Iowa as you have never before? ISU Extension can bring you into places not normally accessible to the public, to personally sample the rich culture and interesting...

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