Community Economic Development Awards (CEDA) Program
The CEDA program is a “Best Practices” program intended to recognize exceptional contributions of communities* in the State of Mississippi for the following efforts:
- Business Retention & Expansion
- Business Recruitment
- Community Development
- Community Involvement
*Community can be defined as any unincorporated town or city, incorporated town or city, county, formally established multi-jurisdictional region, metropolitan statistical area, or state. The “community” should reflect work responsibility of the MEDC member submitting the entry.
Population Categories
- Population less than 5,000
- Population of 5,001 to 15,000
- Population of 15,001 to 40,000
- Population of 40,001 to 100,000
- Population of over 100,000