May 4-5 Regional Convening follow-up documents

Submitted by RickyR on May 14, 2010 - 1:32pm.

If you'd like something posted on this page, please contact Wisconsin Rural Partners executive director Rick Rolfsmeyer at ricky@wirural.org

Table of Contents

1) Conference materials

2) Information from Learning Stations

3) Web links

4) Planned initiatives, projects and convening evaluation

5) Pictures from the Convening

6) Communications and follow-up 

 

 

 

 Conference materials

Conference program

Information on speakers

Breakout session PowerPoint, Energy - Dr. Chris Merritt

Ed Morrison's PowerPoint presentation link

Link to Matt Kures presentation on Cluster Development as an Economic Development Strategy

Breakout session PowerPoint - An Entrepreneurial Approach to Creating Our Future by Dr. Connie Reimers-Hild, Univ. of Nebraska

Breakout session PowerPoint on Local Foods and Tourism as Economic Development by Sharon Gulick, Executive Director, Missouri Rural Development Partners 

 

 

 

Learning Station Information

The Learning Stations were a theater of innovative rural initiatives, provided by the participating State Rural Development Councils in the North Central USDA region.  Much of the information provided through the Learning Stations is linked below, according to topic and state.  We will be updating this resource often.  If you'd like information posted, just send it to rickyr@wirural.org

Broadband

Wired Wisconsin - Wisconsin 

Roadside Advertising - Minnesota
 

 

 

Small Business/Entrepreneurship 

Small Town and Rural Development Concepts - Promising Strategies - Michigan

Promising Strategies Card - Michigan

Extreme Entrepreneurs - Nebraska

Hometown Competitiveness - Nebraska

North Dakota RDC Statewide Young Professionals Network Development

North Dakota Young Professionals, Map

Entrepreneurship Leadership Education - Nebraska

PK (Entrepreneurship) Partnership #2 - Nebraska

Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers - Nebraska

Southeast Nebraska Partners for Progress

Furnace/Harlan Economic Development Partnership - Nebraska

F/H Economic Development Partnership Map  
 

 

 

Building Entrepreneurial Communities Act Grant Program - Nebraska

 

 

 Energy

 

Food Systems 

Community Crops - Nebraska

Nebraska Value Added Partnership

Heartland Nuts and More - Nebraska

Good Food Network

Agriculture Innovation and Value-Added Agriculture Grant Program - Nebraska

Trails to Success - Nebraska 

Sweet Deal! 
 

 

 

Other

Housing Roundtable Overview - North Dakota

How to Start Computer Classes - North Dakota

Landscape Housing Map - North Dakota

The Geography of Innovation - Iowa

Clusters and Competitiveness - Iowa

Clusters and Competitiveness, Brief - Iowa

101+ Quips, Quotes and Concepts for Sustainable Small Town Development - Michigan

Listen and Learn Sessions - Nebraska 

 

 

Good web links

Some states have provided links to websites that feature great, useful information on topics related to regional development.  To get your information posted, send it to ricky@wirural.org

Resources on Clustering from the Economic Development Administration 

The Science Progress organization issued a report in September 2009 on the federal government and the growth of regional innovation clusters.  This piece discusses a federal policy role regarding clusters. 

Here is a Harvard Business School link on clustering: http://www.isc.hbs.edu/econ-clusters.htm
 

 

 

 

Projects and Initiatives

The second day of the convening was spent planning various initiatives.  Most of these were around the topics of Broadband, Small Business/Entrepreneurship, Energy and Food Systems, but plans in other areas emerged as well.

The document below is the first draft of the projects as recorded on the flip charts.  Please contact Ricky at Wisconsin Rural Partners if you have edits of other information to add.  Thanks

Raw Notes - First draft of project initiatives that were planned on Day 2 of the convening

Draft of Convening project initiatives for review and comment (June 2, 2010)

Summary evaluation of the Convening

Chart listing projects and participants

Link to Pictures from the Convening

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Communications and follow-up

Read the article on the project in the Daily Yonder written by Dr. Timothy Collins by clicking here.

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Join the Cultural Heritage, Food and Tourism Regions group on LinkedIn

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