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Rural LISC Home Page - Our Mission: To build the capacity of resident led rural community development corporations (CDCs), increase their production and impact, demonstrate the value of investing in and through rural CDCs and make the resource and policy environment more supportive of rural CDCs and their work.
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Rural Technology Based Economic Development Initiative - A Wisconsin program designed to build a stronger rural economy through the promotion of a Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) that attempts to start-up and grow new technology-based businesses in rural areas of the state. These businesses tend to produce higher paying jobs, which stand to have a larger impact on the economic base of the benefiting community.
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Rural towns turn to mercantiles - When this rural town's clothing store closed, residents put up money to start their own shop, ensuring that they wouldn't have to leave town to buy a dress shirt for work or trendy jeans for school. Residents invested in the store � and in the community. Hundreds of people bought shares in the business, believing they were investing in more than just a clothing store.
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Small Business Classroom - Main Home Page - Knowledge is the most important asset small businesses will compete with in the 21st century. The Small Business Classroom is a digital strategy for reaching new markets and training small business clients in a changing, global environment
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Southern Rural Development Initiative - Southern Rural Development Initiative: a regional collab. of 34 orgs working to increase flow of philan. and dev. capital the South's poorest rural communities.
(Added: 1-Nov-2001 Hits: 61 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR RURAL COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - Strategic planning is an orderly process that allows people in rural counties and towns to identify and address pressing issues in their communities. This planning method begins with three simple questions: Where is our community today? What do we want our community to be like in the future? How can we effectively move toward the future? While strategic planning cannot cure all of a community's ills, it can focus attention on a small number of issues that need to be addressed.
(Added: 12-Apr-2001 Hits: 68 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
Sustainable Ecotourism in the North - Recognizing the significant growth in the number of visitors to the Arctic and the increasing importance of tourism to the economies of rural communities in the Arctic, the Northern Forum, working with the Sustainable Development Working Group of the Arctic Council, supports responsible tourism in the Arctic and the North.
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TechRocks! - TechRocks accelerates social and political progress by building technological capacity for community collaboration and citizen engagement. TechRocks encourages and enables foundations, advocacy groups, and leading activists to use technology to achieve their goals, to increase participation from interested constituencies, and achieve change more quickly than by traditional organizing and advocacy methods alone.
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The Co-op Home Page - National Cooperative Business Association - NCBA's mission to "develop...cooperative enterprise," is fulfilled through our work with members and other partners in CooperationWorks. We also work with our members to improve and expand existing cooperatives. NCBA creates business opportunities for its members and strengthens the cooperative business community through its development activities.
(Added: 3-Nov-2001 Hits: 66 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It
The Cooperative Development Foundation - Assistance for rural development
(Added: 11-Feb-2002 Hits: 42 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

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