Is Your Community Ready For Next?
We help communities begin conversations about transition planning.
Introducing RFN Communities!
Introducing RFN Communities!
RFN Cities is rebranding to RFN Communities!
When we first conceived RFN Cities our mission was to help owners to build successful businesses and when appropriate, transition it to a new generation of owners keeping communities strong and vibrant. Our mission remains the same; how we consider who can be helped has evolved.
In our work and conversations with community leaders, economic developers and associations, the need to keep businesses thriving is important on many levels in part to keep cities, towns and communities economically successful and also to keep the people in the community employed.
RFN Cities has solutions for metropolitan and smaller communities alike. The solutions also work for trade associations, chambers and any place where a collection of business owners operate businesses. Communities can be found everywhere, including inside cities.
Whether you run a chamber, work in economic development in a rural area or in a large metropolis, you represent a community or several. RFN Communities can help you support your owners to build and run successful businesses with enterprise value contributing to your area’s economic future.
We think community is a more accurate way to speak to the businesses and people who are helped by the RFN Communities programs. Here’s why:
Com-mu-ni-ty, plural communities: a unified body of individuals: such as
a: the people with common interests living in a particular area broadly: the area itself the problems of a large community;
b: a group of people with a common characteristic or interest living together within a larger society a community of retired persons a monastic community;
c: a body of persons of common and especially professional interests scattered through a larger society the academic community the scientific community;
d: a body of persons or nations having a common history or common social, economic, and political interests the international community;
e: a group linked by a common policy; and
f: an interacting population of various kinds of individuals (such as species) in a common location.
What is your economy worth?
How Value Acceleration Can Boost Business Retention
What if understanding and confronting your local businesses biggest risk at scale could help you resuscitate your economy?
If you believe the traditional approach to business retention and expansion is changing or should change then, watch the session held in March 2022 to hear about how whole communities can be more resilient by asking one question.
download the canadian white paper
The RFN Communities Business Disruption Risk (BDR) has been applied to Canada and some key Canadian communities. Understand the risk your community is facing and how baby boomer owned businesses could be part of the solution.
download the U.S. white paper.
hundreds of thousands of jobs are at risk across the US
Elevate your community.
Enrich your future.
