Economic Impact Analysis Tool

Resource Summary

This tool is an online calculator for translating project-specific impacts into community-wide effects, including new health and community services provided, number of jobs created, wages earned, and overall impact on the economy. Potentially useful tool for the lead agency of a sharing arrangement to demonstrate the effect of personnel and other spending in the jurisdiction. (The site also has a link to information on planning for sustainability.)

Available online: http://www.raconline.org/econtool/