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NCRCRD Evaluating Community Impacts
from $2 Million Entrepreneurship Grant
HomeTown Competitiveness, a Nebraska initiative currently working in seven counties and communities in Nebraska, is one of six recipients of grants provided through the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s 75th Anniversary Entrepreneurship Development Systems for Rural America. The North Central Regional Center for Rural Development is part of the HTC initiative and will help monitor and evaluate the community impacts of the coordinated efforts to increase rural community entrepreneurship.
HomeTown Competitiveness provides a framework for rural communities to help them identify reachable goals and strategies focused on the four pillars of reversing rural decline, including building leadership and community capacity, engaging young people, fostering local philanthropy, and supporting entrepreneurship.
The core partners in the Kellogg-funded initiative are the Nebraska Community Foundation, the Heartland Center for Leadership Development, the RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship and the Center for Rural Affairs. Other collaborative partners are colleges and programs at the University of Nebraska; the Nebraska Microenterprise Partnership Fund; Northeast Community College at Norfolk; Northern Great Plains Inc. of Fargo, North Dakota; the Nebraska Lied Main Street Program and the Rural Enterprise Assistance Project; and Consolidated Telephone Company and Great Plains Communications, Inc., who serve the rural HTC communities.
The intent of the Kellogg EDS grants is to allow recipients to promote entrepreneurial activity in their region, produce entrepreneurial models for other communities, leverage significant investments, and stimulate national and state interest in rural entrepreneurship policies and strategies.
For more information on the evaluation component of this program, contact Mary Emery at memery@iastate.edu, (515) 294-2878.
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Central Regional Center for Rural Development
Iowa State University
107 Curtiss Hall
Ames, IA 50011-1050
(515) 294-8321, (515) 294-3180 fax
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Last updated October 12, 2006 .