The Olds Institute for Community and Regional Development has a mandate to develop a long term Economic Development Strategy for the municipality of Olds Alberta.
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Economic Development and Municipal Sustainability
Committees with the Institute include Investment Attraction, Business Retention, Community Lifestyle, Finance, Marketing, Opportunity ID, and Technology.
Are you looking for a community to invest in? Look no further than Olds, Alberta.
The Institute supports local business in their expansion plans, and encourages business to remain in Olds.
We are engaged in initiatives that enhance the social and economic development of the community of Olds.
Thanks to the financial support of our economic partners, the Institute is able to support the community.
Promoting the Olds Institute to its residents and business investors, and marketing the community to the world.
The Institute researches needs in the community identifying opportunities that will make Olds sustainable.
Olds will be one of the first communities in Alberta to offer fibre to the premises for residents and businesses.
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Olds Institute: A History
The Institute was founded to provide the Olds community with economic, environmental, cultural, social and governance direction based on community consultation and collaboration ...
Economic Sustainability Priority
April 16th OICRD AGM
April 29, 2013: On April 16th the Olds Institute held its Annual General Meeting and Report to the Community. Each volunteer committee, as well as the essential members, presented an annual report that outlined their activities for the year.
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Report to the Community
April 3, 2013: Join the Olds Institute on April 16th for its Report to the Community - part of the Institute's Annual General Meeting on April 16th at the Olds High School Commons between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Find out about the successes of the volunteer committees and learn more about the great services offered by Mountain View Power and O-NET, two community-owned businesses that re-invest profits into the community.
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What is Important to Olds?
March 21, 2013: The Sustainable Olds Committee is gathering data on what citizens of Olds appreciate about their town. Please take time to fill out the very short survey below. Mark April 13th on your calendars for the "Measuring What Really Matters" Community Engagement. You can register for the event by clicking the link below. The Sustainable Olds Committee (SOC) has invited all OI committees to set up a table at the event, so this will be a great event to learn more about various OI projects and even volunteer!
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Opportunity for a Public Market
November 20, 2012: The Olds Institute retained Coriolis Consulting Corp. to prepare a feasibility analysis, conceptual design, and implementation strategy for a possible new public market in Olds, Alberta.
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Olds builds its own last-mile network
October 31, 2012: Check out the international coverage Olds is getting for its broadband fibre project. As reported in Gigabit Nation.
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Mountain View Power
October 30, 2012: Remember to sign up for electricity service from Mountain View Power. Keep electricity profits in the community, not the big-city corporations.
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Business Internet Usage Increasing
October 30, 2012: Olds business owners are embracing the web for competitive advantage according to a survey released by the Olds Institute and its Connected Community committee earlier this summer.
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O-Net is Boon for Business
October 30, 2012: O-Net is up and running and businesses could not be happier. The new fibre optic service provider is earning early rave reviews for its speed and accessibility to markets deemed inaccessible just a few months ago.
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Olds Heritage Management Plan
Feb 1, 2012: With assistance from the Municipal Heritage Partnership Program, the Town of Olds has begun implementing a Heritage Management Plan. This document could not exist without overwhelming community support and the outstanding work that the Olds Institute & Uptowne Olds accomplished in spearheading the heritage initiatives in Olds.
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Our Vision
We are an engaged community of visionaries building shared knowledge and capacity. Our Mission is to encourage, initiate, and facilitate community and economic development through the incorporation of ...
The Olds Advisory Group for Sustainable Living was instrumental in seeing Olds became the first officially-designated Fair Trade Town in the province of Alberta in November 2009.
Mountain View Power is a private for profit local energy retailing business owned by the Olds Institute that provides electricity to homes and businesses located in the Central Alberta Mountain View County Region. Now you have the option to purchase your electricity at competitive rates and support your community all at the same time.
The beauty of Olds has not gone unnoticed by travellers to our community. Click here to read testimonials from our visitors and newcomers.
Business & Investment Attraction There are also numerous opportunities to identify potential new business for our community through organizations such as the Olds College School of Innovation.
This committee aims to attract new businesses and investment to support and enhance managed, sustainable growth of our community and region.
The Business and Investment Attraction Committee is enthused about the possibilities for a hotel/convention centre in Olds. With a focus on business attraction, we hope to see real investment take place and deals made that bring new and growing companies to town.
Business Retention and Expansion The Business Expansion and Retention Committee has been working on projects such as the new Uptowne Olds, an initiative to welcome shoppers to the downtown core.
The Institute supports local business in their expansion plans, and encourages business to remain in Olds.
Uptowne Olds has made huge strides in a short period of time. From initiating an Historic Survey, to creating a new marketing and branding initiative, this group of energetic entrepreneurs has demonstrated how quickly things can move.
Technology Central Alberta will be a place to grow, thanks to a partnership of eight organizations and the Rural Alberta Development Fund.
Olds will be one of the first communities in Alberta to offer fibre to the premises for residents and businesses.
An extensive community consultation identified ICT connectivity to the SuperNet as being the critical issue necessary to make Olds a vibrant, sustainable entrepreneurial community with a quality of life that would retain and attract Alberta’s brightest.
Community Lifestyle Physician Recruitment and Affordable Housing are top priorities for the Community Lifestyle Committee.
We are engaged in initiatives that enhance the social and economic development of the community of Olds.
Physician Recruitment is a top priority for the Community Lifestyle Committee. With the competition to get doctors to rural centres more fierce than ever, the committee is turning to the community, and our doctors, for ideas.

Essential Members   >>   Town of Olds | Olds & District Chamber of Commerce | Olds College | Olds Agricultural Society
Associate Members   >>   Chinook's Edge School Division | Mountain View County | Red Deer Catholic School Division
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