Time for more rural entrepreneurship news headlines! One Governor puts his budget money into rural broadbandSouth Carolina Governor Mark Sanford “included $2 million in his executive budget to help provide high-speed Internet access to areas, such as Allendale, through direct and matching grants.” Island Packet Online.And, from New York, The Ithica Journal profiles rural broadband,…
Some rural communities develop, and some wither. Some development efforts succeed, and some terrific attempts are miserable failures. What makes the difference? Michael Holton with the Center for Rural Affairs explores the Top 10 Reasons Rural Community Development is So Hard to DO! You have two ways to read it. Read the entire article in…
I noticed this item on a workshop at the Pratt (Kansas, USA) Women’s Conference: Kansas is on the cutting edge of grassroots economic development, according to Linda McCowan, enterprise facilitator for Entrepreneurship Networks of Great Bend. In her break-out session she will talk about the three cones for entrepreneurship: a good service or product, a…
More rural entrepreneurship news to share. One Stop Support for Small BusinessesNebraska (USA) is using local colleges to bring together all the agencies that help small business. They are also creating a uniform entrepreneurship curriculum. They are calling it NET Force Nebraska. Economic Impact of FestivalsDo festivals contribute to your local economy? Take the example…
Welcome, SCORE Rural Resource readers! Besides this round up, we have more rural small business articles. See the newest ones on the Home Page. Todays news was full of stories on rural entrepreneurship. Here’s a roundup. Towns turn to the arts and revive Main StreetsThe Economist magazine (USA)Some surviving small towns have simply become bedroom…
[Special guest author Laura Girty lives in Cherokee, Oklahoma, and works for the Oklahoma Department of Commerce in community development. She has kindly contributed articles she wrote for the ODOC Developer newsletter, and yes this article does refer to me, OkieJ (Jeanne Cole) and OkieK (Karen Payne). ] Does your community buy into your community…
Want to support new businesses in your small town? Try a Business Symposium. Barber County (Kansas) Development, Inc., organized one with guest speakers to cover topics including: Barber County’s micro-loan program State and local tax exemptions Incentive programs Enterprise Zones Other local initiatives You can pull together speakers on a similar list of local help…
Rural entrepreneurship has become one of the most exciting areas of the New Economic Development. But you don’t have to take my word for it. That quote is from economic development expert Ed Morrison. This week, he has a round up of some of the best resources for reviving small towns. Jack Schultz gets some…
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