Happy New Year to our readers and partners throughout rural America! We hope that 2013 is a year of peace and prosperity for all. Our Featured Story below offers a sneak preview of upcoming Center events in the year ahead.
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A Preview of 2013 Events
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The Center welcomes five new Board members in 201 3, all of whom bring great skills and capacities to the Center. We appreciate their service!
- Michelle Decker, Rural Action
- Mary Hunt-Lieving, Benedum Foundation
- Ines Polonius, alt.Consulting
- Sherece West-Scantlebury, Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
- Shawn Winkler-Rios, eDev
We're beginning 2013 with an update and refresh of the Center's website. Look for new content and videos on www.energizingentrepreneurs.org.
We plan more webinars in 2013, including national Transfer of Wealth (TOW) and HomeTown Competitiveness webinars, and we plan to partner with other organizations to bring our content to new audiences.
Watch for new TOW tools to make this research even more useful in your communities. And, watch for the launch of WealthWorks tools coming out of the Ford Foundation-supported wealth creation in rural communities initiative.
As always, the best way to stay on top of the Center's work is by subscribing to our newsletters. Click Join our Mailing List in the sidebar. And, let us hear from you - deb@e2mail.org.
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Don Macke will be in...
- Amarillo, TX on January 17 for a presentation to the Planned Giving Association
- Burlington, IA on January 23-25 for the Great River Region Iowa Entrepreneur Training
- Hillsboro, KS on January 28 for the Annual Chamber Banquet
Deb Markley will be in...
- Washington, DC on January 27-30 for a meeting on the WealthWorks toolkit development
Ahmet Binerer, Don Macke and Deb Markley will be in...
- Amarillo, TX on January 15 for the annual meeting of the Amarillo Area Foundation
Craig Schroeder will be in...
- Faulkton, SD on January 8 conducting youth focus groups
Check out Development Opportunities for 2013 and Beyond from Don Macke.
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- Great source of rural development news - Rural eNews from LISC. Click here to subscribe.
- Learn how the Midwest is becoming the next entrepreneurial hotspot - click here.
- New three-part series by ICMA on asset-based economic development and building sustainable rural communities. Click here to get started with part 1.
- eXtension Entrepreneurs and their Communities offers monthly webinars that might be useful to your entrepreneur clients and partners. To join the mailing list for these webinars, email Mary Peabody.
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