RW Ventures, LLC's work is centered on three broad areas: regional economies, neighborhood markets and business services.
At
the regional level, we work primarily with civic leadership
organizations and local governments. We have done extensive research to
identify the key drivers of economic growth for cities and metropolitan
areas and elaborate tools that urban leaders can use to guide their
interventions. We also conduct in-depth analysis of the regional
economy in particular places, in order to elaborate targeted
development strategies that build on the unique economic mix of
each urban area. To this end, over the years we have assembled one of
the most comprehensive databases on cities and metropolitan areas,
encompassing thousands of variables bearing on the social and economic
characteristics of every urban area in the United States.
At the neighborhood level, RW Ventures, LLC
has been at the forefront of the analysis of neighborhood markets and
of the elaboration of market-based strategies for community economic
development. Our work has focused in particular on the use of
information resources (from specialized data to neighborhood platforms) to reconnect
isolated and underutilized neighborhood assets to the mainstream
economy. We have worked with businesses, foundations,
and community based organizations across the country to assess the market potential in low
to middle income communities, conducting specialized market analysis
geared primarily towards retail, insurance and financial services.
Ultimately, our work at the regional and neighborhood level is closely
interconnected: successful development strategies at the community
level leverage the neighborhood assets in the context of the regional
economy. Similarly, successful economic development at the
regional level needs to take into account all of the resources that the
region's neighborhoods have to offer.
RW Ventures, LLC also works with
several early stage technology companies, providing a wide array of
business services, from strategic and
business planning to finance.
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