Partner network
Every actor has a role in bringing manufacturing home.
NRC gives partners a shared table, practical data, and a state-by-state organizing model so reshoring can move from interest to executed projects.
State Governments
What they bring: leadership, policy authority, convening power, public investment tools, and statewide priorities.
- Translate import dependency into a practical state manufacturing agenda.
- Coordinate policy, workforce, capital, infrastructure, and economic development around one strategy.
- Use NRC data to identify high-value reshoring opportunities by sector.
- Benchmark progress against other states and national priorities.
- Move beyond announcements toward measurable jobs, investment, and production outcomes.
Economic Development Organizations
What they bring: site knowledge, business outreach, incentive navigation, local relationships, and project management.
- Turn statewide reshoring targets into real company attraction and expansion leads.
- Match manufacturers and importers with sites, utilities, workforce, and local partners.
- Use NRC research to sharpen business cases for domestic production.
- Build a stronger project pipeline around supply-chain gaps and replacement opportunities.
- Give local communities a clearer role in state and national industrial strategy.
Manufacturers
What they bring: production capacity, operational expertise, workforce demand, supplier relationships, and expansion projects.
- Find new domestic demand tied to import substitution opportunities.
- Connect with buyers, importers, suppliers, capital partners, and state leaders.
- Elevate barriers around workforce, permitting, equipment, financing, and market access.
- Participate in state chapters that advocate for practical manufacturing priorities.
- Position expansion projects inside a broader national reshoring movement.
Importers
What they bring: demand signals, supplier requirements, purchasing volume, logistics knowledge, and replacement opportunities.
- Identify products that could be sourced domestically without losing competitiveness.
- Reduce exposure to foreign supply disruptions, tariffs, freight volatility, and long lead times.
- Meet domestic manufacturers capable of producing replacement components, inputs, or finished goods.
- Shape new supplier development projects around real buyer specifications.
- Build a more resilient supply chain while supporting American production capacity.
Investment Funds + Venture Capitalists
What they bring: growth capital, diligence discipline, market perspective, portfolio networks, and risk-tolerant investment capacity.
- See a clearer pipeline of manufacturing, automation, logistics, and supply-chain companies tied to real domestic demand.
- Use NRC data to identify sectors where import dependence creates investable reshoring opportunities.
- Connect portfolio companies with state partners, manufacturers, importers, workforce systems, and public incentives.
- Support companies that can scale production capacity, supplier networks, and industrial technology inside the United States.
- Align financial returns with national supply-chain resilience, regional growth, and American industrial competitiveness.
Trade Associations
What they bring: member networks, industry intelligence, policy voice, convening capacity, and trust.
- Give members a clear pathway into state and national reshoring work.
- Translate sector pain points into policy, research, and project priorities.
- Coordinate delegations, roundtables, chapter activity, and Summit participation.
- Help NRC validate data with real industry experience.
- Strengthen the association's value proposition around growth and competitiveness.
Colleges
What they bring: students, faculty, applied research, facilities, credentials, and regional credibility.
- Connect classroom learning to real reshoring projects and employer needs.
- Build experiential courses around state manufacturing opportunities.
- Create applied research, student teams, and capstone projects tied to domestic production.
- Develop microcredentials and certificates that support reshoring workforce needs.
- Give students a direct pathway into manufacturing, policy, logistics, and economic development careers.
Workforce Organizations
What they bring: training systems, labor-market knowledge, employer engagement, worker support, and credential pathways.
- Align training programs with real manufacturing demand created by reshoring projects.
- Help employers solve talent gaps before expansion projects stall.
- Build stronger pathways for students, displaced workers, veterans, and incumbent workers.
- Use NRC data to anticipate where sector-specific workforce demand may grow.
- Connect workforce strategy directly to state industrial competitiveness.
Philanthropy
What they bring: mission capital, community trust, flexible funding, convening support, and long-term patience.
- Support civic infrastructure that helps communities compete for durable manufacturing work.
- Fund education, research, convenings, and chapter capacity where public dollars are limited.
- Back workforce mobility, regional resilience, and community wealth creation.
- Help smaller communities participate in national industrial renewal.
- Measure impact through jobs, training, investment, and reduced supply-chain vulnerability.
Financial Institutions
What they bring: capital, underwriting expertise, local market knowledge, lending tools, and investor relationships.
- See a clearer pipeline of manufacturing expansion and supplier development projects.
- Evaluate reshoring opportunities with better data, partners, and state context.
- Support equipment, facilities, working capital, and growth financing.
- Connect borrowers with public programs, incentives, guarantees, and technical assistance.
- Participate in projects that strengthen regional economies and supply-chain resilience.
Research Partners
What they bring: analysis, credibility, datasets, economic modeling, policy evaluation, and publication capacity.
- Turn reshoring questions into rigorous, state-relevant research.
- Analyze trade, production, employment, workforce, and sector opportunity data.
- Support public comments, policy briefs, academic papers, and state reports.
- Give decision-makers evidence they can use to act with confidence.
- Build a national knowledge base around import substitution and industrial capacity.
Technology Partners
What they bring: platforms, data tools, automation, AI, mapping, integration capacity, and technical support.
- Make manufacturing opportunities visible through data, maps, dashboards, and matching tools.
- Help manufacturers modernize processes, improve productivity, and compete domestically.
- Connect buyers, suppliers, states, and partners through shared digital infrastructure.
- Support state chapters with repeatable tools instead of one-off spreadsheets.
- Bring automation and AI into the reshoring conversation in practical, adoption-ready ways.
