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Heartland Center for Leadership Development
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Press Release
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Hold the Date!
HomeTown Competitiveness Workshop
September 22, 2010
Washington, D.C.
A pre-conference workshop on HomeTown Competitiveness,
winner of the  Innovative Program of the Year Award from the Community
Development Society, has been scheduled just prior to CFED's 2010 Assets
Learning Conference in September. HomeTown Competitiveness, or HTC, is a rural community development
strategy that focuses on four Pillars: Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Youth
Engagement and Community Philanthropy. HTC is in widespread use in nearly a dozen states and is producing remarkable
results for small towns facing population decline and economic distress.
The pre-conference workshop is sponsored by the Heartland
Center for Leadership Development and the RUPRI Center for Rural
Entrepreneurship. It will be held on
Wednesday morning, September 22, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in
Washington, D.C., just prior to CFED's conference, which begins at the same
hotel just after lunch. CFED is
expecting more than 1,000 leaders in community practice, government,
philanthropy and academia to attend the conference.
The HTC workshop will be led by Milan Wall, Co-Director of
the Heartland Center, and Craig Schroeder, Senior Associate with the Center for
Rural Entrepreneurship. Schroeder and
Wall are two members of the founding HTC leadership team from their two centers
and the Nebraska Community Foundation.
Craig Schroeder, RUPRI Center
for Rural Entrepreneurship. | Milan Wall, Heartland Center for Leadership Development
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The cost of this pre-conference workshop is $129 which includes materials. For more information on the pre-conference workshop or to register, contact
the Heartland Center at www.heartlandcenter.info or phone 800-927-1115 or 402-474-7667. This is an opportunity to learn about a rural development
framework that is transforming communities across the heartland of America.
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About the Heartland Center for Leadership Development
The Heartland Center for Leadership Development is an
independent, nonprofit organization developing local leadership that responds
to the challenges of the future. Heartland Center activities focus on training,
facilitation and evaluation for community capacity building programs
nationwide. Programs and publications stress the critical role played by local
leadership as communities and organizations work towards sustainable
development. Each year the Center serves approximately 2,500 leaders from 300
rural communities nationwide.
The Heartland Center was founded by a group of Great Plains leaders during the
agricultural crisis in the mid-1980s. Early on, the Center's co-directors, Dr.
Vicki Luther and Milan Wall, earned national recognition for their landmark
research, publication and curriculum, Clues to Rural Community Survival,
examining the characteristics communities need to compete in a changing world.
To learn more about the Center, visit www.heartlandcenter.info.
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About the RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship
The RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship is the focal point for energizing entrepreneurial communities where entrepreneurs can flourish. Created in 2001 with founding support from the Kauffman Foundation and the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI), the Center is located jointly in Nebraska, North Carolina, and Missouri. The Center's work to date has been to develop the knowledge base of effective practices and to share that knowledge through training and strategic engagement across rural America. Working with economic development practitioners and researchers, the Center conducts practice-driven research and evaluation that serves as the basis for developing insights into model practices and other learning. The Center is committed to connecting economic development practitioners and policy makers to the resources needed to energize entrepreneurs and implement entrepreneurship as a core economic development strategy. To learn more about the Center, visit www.energizingentrepreneurs.org. |
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