5 Steps for Rescuing Your Community:
Financial Preservation through Uncertain Times

The L-shaped recession. A protracted period of economic stagnation. Automotive bankruptcies. Credit crunch. A shrinking revenue base and a growing dependent class. Skyrocketing interest payments. Insolvent pension funds. Legacy contracts and legacy benefits. Abandoned houses and empty storefronts. Escalating crime and growing unrest.

Project Innovations is partnering with the nationally recognized financial firm, Anderson Economic Group and Michigan's top infrastructure firm, OHM Advisors to bring a seasoned Contingency Planning Team together to help communities confront the unpleasant factors of the nation's economic downturn. We also have experts in public safety and education on our team and decades of experience working with municipal, regional and state governments, and school systems.

We help your community develop strategies to prepare for a brighter and more livable future, regardless of the economy. Our programs are practical and doable, based on extensive research and worst-case scenario planning. Our theme is preservation through uncertain times.

The Budget Crisis at Hand

Must Do Tasks:

Preserve your community's financial independence, by:

  • Assessing the fiscal stability of your community.
  • Assessing the impact of an L-shaped recession on your businesses and non-profit agencies.
  • Assessing the ability of community banks to serve your people.
  • Identifying the strengths and weaknesses of your workforce, your industry and manufacturing mix, and your capacity to build a self-reliant economy.
  • Reviewing, analyzing, and prioritizing your community's "wish list" of federal and state projects.

Preserve your community's population, by:

  • Making your people, citizens and staff, aware of the possibility of an L-shaped recession and engaging them in contingency planning for themselves and the community.
  • Recommending programs that build community identity and unite citizens to meet the challenge.
  • Leveraging urban gardens and local food resiliency, including eating, drinking, and thinking "local."
  • Developing a strategy for mitigating abandoned buildings.
  • Devising a plan to fund your schools and develop programs that teach financial independence, community preservation and sustainable living.
  • Assessing your community's risk for increased gang violence and organized crime.

Preserve your community's infrastructure, by:

  • Assessing options for implementing renewable energy and reducing reliance on the grid.
  • Making your community more walkable and less dependent on the automobile.
  • Identifying mission critical needs in water and wastewater infrastructure.
  • Assessing the sustainability of public buildings, libraries, schools, and park properties.