Engaging knowledge and action to foster community competitiveness

The Tayloe Murphy Center forms alliances with communities in the Commonwealth of Virginia facing challenging economic conditions.  Some might broad-brush these localities which face daunting circumstances—high unemployment rates, poverty and sluggish economic growth—as past their prime.  Not accepting this characterization, the Tayloe Murphy Center assists partner communities in making crucial investments—educational, institutional, infrastructural—intended to spur economic competitiveness while preserving the culture and features that make these communities great places to live.

In addition, the Tayloe Murphy Center conducts path-breaking and leadership-focused research projects that inform pressing policy and business issues central to the challenge of economic and social progress.

Read more about the vision of our organization in this letter from our Executive Director, Gregory B. Fairchild .

The mission of the Tayloe Murphy Center is to facilitate community competitiveness through the development of practical research on what makes communities globally competitive; the dissemination of that knowledge to practitioners in the field; and the sponsorship of interaction between stakeholders committed to making communities globally competitive.