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- The Digital Divide Network:
- A conversation with Montana Public Service commissioner Rob Rowe regarding the digital divide in rural places... germane and interesting. take a look!
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- The Farmer's Guide to the Internet: Rural and Economic Development Sites
- Links to economic development opportunities and information all over the 'net. Brought to you by The Farmer's Guide to the Internet.
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- The FIELD Project at Aspen Institute
- FIELD, the Microenterprise Fund for Innovation, Effectiveness, Learning and Dissemination, is a research and development organization dedicated to the expansion and sustainability of microenterprise development efforts, particularly those aimed at poor Americans. FIELD�s mission is to help identify, develop and disseminate best practices, and to broadly educate policymakers, funders and others about microenterprise as an anti-poverty intervention.
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- The National Rural Health Association
- The National Rural Health Association is a national membership organization, consisting of approximately 2000 members, whose mission is to improve the health and healthcare of rural Americans and to provide leadership on rural issues through advocacy, communications, education and research. The NRHA is a non-profit association headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, with a government affairs office in Washington, D.C.
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- The World Bank - Community-Based Rural Development
- The mission of the Community Based Rural Development (CBRD) team is to empower the rural poor through participatory, community-driven and decentralized programs.
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- Toolbox
- Effective and sustainable community and economic development is best achieved by following the four key principles of the Community Empowerment Initiative. This site contains references to materials and Web sites that can assist communities in accomplishing the goals concerning each of these principles.
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- Transitions: New Incentives for Rural Communities
- This preliminary feasibility study focuses on a community that faces a declining commodity base. This Thoreau Institute study looks at recreational services as a sustainable economic base for Wallowa County, in northeast Oregon, USA.
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- UrbanFutures.org - A Project of the Reason Public Policy Institute
- The Urban Futures Program strives to change the climate and terms of the debate over urban policy by developing and promoting voluntary, private-sector, and market-oriented solutions to urban problems. The program's principal activities focus on urban economic development policy and land-use planning at the local, regional, state, and national levels.
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- USDA
- Assistance for rural development
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- USDA
- Links and info to all of the USDA services.
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