What Does ACE Do?

ACE provides technical assistance to select communities with populations of 2,000 to 18,000 through a comprehensive, three-phase approach. 

ACE advocates leadership development and engages in a municipality’s vision and plans for growth and enhanced quality of life.

What defines an ACE Community?
Alabama Communities of Excellence Map
  • Fosters growth and prosperity by focusing on its distinctive assets and resources
  • Establishes a vision based on the community’s unique values, concerns, and priorities
  • Engages a broad base of community stakeholders to develop and implement short-term and long-range plans to achieve that vision
  • Strives to meet defined ideas that embrace Leadership, Planning, Economic Development, and Quality of Life issues such as education, healthcare, and public safety.

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Resources and Forms

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