| Through our work with partners in Western North Dakota, the Center is helping local and regional leaders address the short and long term opportunities and challenges associated with new energy development. Learn more below. |
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Western North Dakota Energy Project
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In partnership with the Storm Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Vision West Consortium, and others, and with support from the Bush Foundation, the Center has developed the Western North Dakota Energy Project.  This project focuses on clarifying development issues and options related to the energy development occurring in Western North Dakota. In addition to addressing shorter-term challenges and opportunities created by the scale-up in energy exploration and development, this work addresses how the region can position itself post-development for sustained economic prosperity. A series of informational webinars and a policy education white paper are available thanks to this work. To learn more, contact Don Macke.
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Center completes Australian Youth Surveys
The Center just wrapped up a survey of 7th through 12th graders attending schools in the Buloke, Gannawarra and Loddon Shires in Australia. For more information on how a youth survey can help you understand what is motivating your youth to want to stay or return home, please contact Craig Schroeder. Don Macke will be in...
Deb Markley will be in....
- Lewisburg, WV on November 12-13 for a meeting with Natural Capital Investment Fund on measuring wealth related to a Rural Jobs Accelerator grant.
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- Provide feedback on a new online tool designed to help measure the economic, environmental, and social impacts of economic development projects - what's referred to as the triple bottom line. Access the tool here.
- SBA Office of Advocacy gets innovative at a recent conference on Small Business and Government Maximizing Entrepreneurship, Driving Innovation. Read about the conference in the latest issue of The Small Business Advocate.
- Learn about social networking tools to build local economies focused on food systems and the advanced energy and renewable bioproducts that come from agriculture in a November 8th webinar. Click here for more information.
- To read about organizing to harness the wind as an economic development strategy in rural places, click here.
- OurTown - grants of $25,000 to $200,000 to creative and innovative projects in which communities, along with arts/design organizations, improve quality of life; foster stronger community identity; encourage greater creative activity; and revitalize economic development.
- FIELD launches new leadership development initiative, ELM2, for emerging leaders in the microbusiness field - both high potential staff in mature microenterprise organizations and young executive directors of new organizations. Click here for more info.
- Check out this Kauffman Sketchbook video on what it takes to build a start-up ecosystem - clever!
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