Loudoun’s business community is involved. It’s a place where people who are busy running companies and organizations take time out to talk to one another. And we mean really talk – not networking over cocktails. This is about the serious work of continuing to move Loudoun forward. It’s about harnessing the collective time, energy, and brainpower of some of the smartest and most innovative leaders anywhere.
We’re building upon a spirit of collaboration in the community. To make the most of this willingness displayed by our business leaders, we have formed several partnerships. Each group provides a forum for dialogue, debate, and a free-flowing exchange of ideas that can spark innovative approaches to seemingly difficult problems. Every community has a problem set. We’re lucky that ours are the problems of success.
There partnerships are already have a positive impact on this county. Talented people, who would typically be unaffordable or unavailable as consultants, are providing an invaluable service to their community. Created with a simple and flexible organizational structure, these partnerships are focused on doing important work that needs to be done to be a five star community. Delve deeper to find out more about our five Cabinets.
The CEO Cabinet is composed of public, private and nonprofit CEOs and chairman-level executives. The goal of the Cabinet is to make Loudoun one of the top 20 best places in the country to live and work.
Engineers, architects, planners, and designers come together in a fusion of creative community problem solving with DED’s Design Cabinet. Whether it’s traffic calming in the east, or village preservation in the west, the Cabinet tackles some of Loudoun’s most interesting challenges in order to help keep Loudoun a community of high quality design.
Established in 1995 by Loudoun’s Board of Supervisors, the Economic Development Commission (EDC) is a public/private partnership responsible for promoting the county’s economic development. We like to call the EDC the granddaddy of our partnerships.
Agriculture, horticulture and equine industries are vitally important to Loudoun’s economy and our special “fresh and local” regional flavor. The Rural Economic Development Council (REDC) was created by the Board of Supervisors in 2000 to promote the growth of our rural economy as well as provide advice and recommendations.
This group is Loudoun’s key forum to encourage the development of the county and the region as a global center of science and technology. Founded in 2002, the Loudoun County Science and Technology Cabinet has helped to recruit several world-class scientists to the region’s public university.