The Community Economics Laboratory (CELab) is a nonprofit think tank launched in 2009 with the conviction that communities need new and better ways to create jobs and reduce poverty in the rapidly changing 21st century. The CELab’s areas of focus are economic development, workforce development, poverty reduction, entrepreneurial ecosystems and a better system for planning and management of economies. Ultimately, the CELab’s work aims to design and build resilient economies for communities with increasingly happy, healthy and productive people.