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Our Downtown Needs Help

These are the lessons to turn to when your downtown needs some help, whether it’s dead in the evenings or just dead! We have ways to bring more life and activity downtown, into the heart of your community.
Cheap Downtown Placemaking Ideas - $100 or less
The Tour of Empty Buildings video and audio
Reviving Your Dead Downtown
Filling Empty Buildings
Fill big empty buildings with Shared Spaces
Use Art to Build Community
Embedded Community Experience - See your town with new eyes
Bringing Life and Activity Downtown After 5

Our young people are moving away

Each year, another class of seniors graduates high school and most of them move away. Young families move into town, but they’re busy and don’t seem to get involved. How can small towns attract and retain young people? We have some practical ideas you can put into action right away.
Idea Friendly for Youth: Picture and Make the Change You Want
Build Youth Entrepreneurship
Connecting with Kids - Engaging with Middle and High School Students
Improving Rural Housing
Attracting and Retaining Youth - from school age to young families

Our businesses need help with marketing and promotion

It’s never been easier to put marketing messages out into the world, but it’s never been more challenging to make marketing work for small town businesses. We’ll help to get the word out effectively so your businesses can prosper.
Beating the Online Competition - small town retail tactics that work
Shop Local is worn out! What works today
Cooperation Creates More Customers - Getting local businesses to work together
Stories that Sell - How rural people can easily market their business and town
The Future of Retail - Action steps for small towns

People are negative or stuck in the past

Too often, the challenge holding us back the most is our own people. Whether they are actively negative or just a little stuck in the past, these lessons help you shift some thinking. The trends lessons help push people’s thinking forward. Other lessons focus on getting things positive and keeping them there.
The Idea Friendly Method
Idea Friendly Next Steps
Dealing with Negativity and Opposition
If Your Idea is Against the Rules
Seeing the Small Town Future - Positive rural trends
Change the Conversation - Why the Tour of Empty Buildings worked

We need more businesses, more jobs or a new approach to economic development

The way we do business in rural areas is not just a mom and pop model anymore. We’re redefining what a business is and what a job is. That means economic development has to change, too. These videos lay out the Innovative Rural Business Models and Rural Jobs Creation Strategies.
Rural workforce Trends
Equity in Rural Economic Development - Open opportunity to more people
Cheap Economic Development
Grow Your Own Entrepreneurs - the Innovative Rural Business Models
Survey of Rural Challenges 2021
Craft Entrepreneurs Create Prosperity - works in even the tiniest towns
Empty Lot Economic Development
Making Entrepreneurship Self-sustaining - Why training isn't the answer
Grow Your Food Business Ecosystem - expand the market for local foods
Rural Jobs Creation Strategies

We need more volunteers

Volunteers are burning out. People just don’t step up for traditional volunteer jobs like they used to. With all the other change in society, volunteering has to change, too. These lessons share ways to unleash whole new ranks of people and maybe even change your thinking about the chaos that comes with them.
Find More Volunteers - video and audio version
Get Businesses on Board video
Big ideas? Small Steps! - The most common mistake we see
Preview
Events They’ll Attend - Creating them together
Idea Friendly Officials and Boards - open to new ideas
Before You Write Your Next Plan

Resilience Videos

Your town isn't the only one struggling to come back after *gestures wildly* everything. This special collection gives you the best most current advice on restarting your local economy and being more resilient no matter what the world throws at us next. 
5 Top Topics for 2023
Building a Unified Community: Reaching and Rallying Everyone
Rebuild Community Ties After Disaster - Natural disasters or economic losses
2022 Rural Trends
Survey of Rural Challenges themes 2015 - 2021
Making Downtown Look Full (even when it isn't)
Refilling Your Business Pipeline video
Zoom Towns - Supporting Rural Remote Work
Placemaking Your Parks, Trails and Water: Building Community Stewardship - video and audio
Rebuilding Local Economy
Restarting Local Shopping
Food Builds Community: Addressing hunger, growing prosperity

Audio - listen on the go like a podcast

Audio versions of your favorite videos! Download to your phone to listen on the go. 
The Idea Friendly Method Audio
Idea Friendly Next Steps audio
5 Top Topics for 2023 - audio version
Placemaking Parks, Trails and Waters - audio version
The Tour of Empty Buildings audio version
Food Builds Community audio version
Find More Volunteers main lesson - audio version
Find more volunteers - bonus lesson audio version
Audio: Idea Friendly for Youth: Picture and Make the Change You Want
Improving Rural Housing Audio

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