Helping communities navigate economic development.
We focus on our clients and their individual needs.
Whether we are helping to repurpose an underutilized asset or deliver funding to close a gap in a development proforma, our methods are the same: listen, collaborate and implement.
Delaware County Community College New Southeast Campus (Delaware County Community College)
Campus Master Plan Implementation (Variety the Children’s Charity of the Delaware Valley)
Industrial Manufacturing Headquarters Construction (CANPACK USA)
Cumberland County Economic Development Projects (CAEDC)
Services
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We design and execute custom public funding strategies for impactful, community-based economic development projects. ECON creates persuasive, quality applications for targeted programs and implements them within a competitive funding environment. We facilitate the creation of successful applications on behalf of public entities, private firms, institutions, and non-profits.
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We provide seamless and robust post-award management services, including agency communications, funding compliance administration, construction procurement support, and funding draw down. ECON will stand with your team during the often complex, post-award period to ensure that your funding is released. You will not find a more talented and experienced funding compliance team.
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All successful funding applications spring from enthusiastic community stakeholders who become your project’s champions. ECON excels at coordinating project support among diverse community stakeholders that advances your project’s public funding strategy. ECON will work independently or in close coordination with your project’s government relations professionals to develop a comprehensive funding plan that takes into account the political realities of the project's environment.
Leadership
Coleen Terry is the founder and President of ECON partners, inc., a woman-owned and staffed public funding firm headquartered in Radnor, PA, with a satellite office in Harrisburg. Coleen founded ECON in 2012, intent upon creating a client-first company motivated by results and community impacts. She fervently believes when communities and clients grow from her efforts to advance projects, ECON grows.
Coleen brings more than 25 years of economic development experience to each project and community she engages. Fostering client outcomes that directly benefit the neighborhoods where they are nurtured and built, gets her up in the morning and drives her to deliver tangible results for ECON’s clients.
Coleen leads a professional team strongly rooted in executing successful implementation strategies for impactful projects. She leads ECON’s work supporting new development projects as well as projects that repurpose underutilized buildings and sites. Her deep knowledge of public funding programs and their compliance requirements has garnered her recognition with the Commonwealth, as well as with ECON’s diverse clientele.
When she isn’t leading her team to make great things happen for their clients, Coleen can usually be found traveling for new cultural experiences, cooking with her husband, and enjoying time with their family and rowdy pack of fur kids.
