10 Years of Rural Insights Wed Feb 26 at 11:30 am Central Andrew Button, Becky McCray and Deb Brown Rural entrepreneurship, community challenges and assets

Finding good employees is one of the most complex challenges for rural communities, today and for a long time now. While old way thinking, practices and beliefs are still out there, change is moving fast. Some of the old limits don’t have to be limits any more. You’ll also learn how the Idea Friendly Method gives you a do-able, flexible approach to your local workforce challenges.

Join Dell Gines from IEDC International Economic Development Council, and Becky McCray and Deb Brown from SaveYour.Town for a no-charge webinar to help you develop robust networks for targeted purposes

Economic self-defense for small towns, including why local businesses beat recruited businesses. You'll learn 7 places to uncover emerging entrepreneurs to support, plus 6 places to look online; 5 Up-to-date ideas for succession planning. Deb shares how she improvised an incubator project and filled empty buildings downtown.

Bring your empty lots back to life! Put them to work enabling commerce, supporting business and adding to prosperity in your small town or rural community. 29 minute video you can share

You're hearing more about "equity" in economic development grants and programs, but it's mostly from an urban perspective and hard to adapt for small communities. Luckily, there is a very simple approach you can adapt easily in even small and rural communities: Cut down the barriers to entry. Find out how in this video.

Expand the market for local food within your community, grow more food entrepreneurs and tap your local food culture for tourism.

Position your town for the future of remote work in this 31 minute video available to watch on your schedule