Grants & Funding Region Nine has recently secured a $100K grant to support regional food surplus recovery for food shelves, indicating a strong grant-writing capability and a track record of leveraging public funds. This suggests a potential for offering expanded grant management, compliance, and fundraising services to sustain and scale funding programs.

Leadership Expansion The organization recently hired a deputy director, signaling growth and onboarding of leadership talent. This presents an opening for executive outreach around strategic planning, organizational development, and leadership coaching or advisory services to support scaling regional initiatives.

Solar & Sustainability RNDC has earned SolSmart Silver designations twice, underscoring a commitment to solar energy accessibility. There is a sales opportunity to provide energy program development, incentives navigation, and renewable energy implementation support for local governments and institutions.

Regional Partnerships With a mission centered on intergovernmental cooperation and regional development, RNDC collaborates with counties, cities, schools, and other partners. This creates avenues to offer program design, data analytics, and intergovernmental collaboration platforms to optimize regional projects.

Community Impact Programs Active engagement in aging, healthy communities, economic development, and early literacy grants indicates a diversified portfolio and potential for cross-sell in workforce development, aging services, early childhood initiatives, and community health projects to funding and program teams.