Rural News Bits - a monthly newsletter published by
the Partnership for Rural Nebraska.
Papers and Presentations by Topic
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Asset-based Community Development
"Vitalizing
Communities: Building on Assets and Mobilizing for
Collective Action" was presented by Dr.
John Allen, former Director of CARI, on March 29,
2004 during an online presentation with Dickenson
State College of North Dakota. This PowerPoint presentation
contains examples of completed asset inventory sheets
from the Asset Based Community Development Guide
for Communities. A PDF version of the Community
Guide is available here.
"Vitalizing
Communities: Building on Assets and Mobilizing for
Collective Action" was presented by Dr.
John C. Allen, former Director of CARI, on March
3 at the U.S.-Mexico Border Coalition of Resource
Conservation and Development Councils Annual Conference
2003 in San Diego, California. "Vitalizing Communities"
is a PowerPoint presentation.
The Art of Creating a Goat Cheese Business - Raising goats and manufacturing goat cheese are viable ways to create a value-added product from farming. Profitability from the sale of farmstead goat cheese can be limited by how the operation is equipped and staffed, and what the current local or regional market will bear.
Technology
"E-Commerce in Nebraska:
A Survey of Business Technology Use." This 2004
report compiles the results of a survey completed
by CARI in conjunction with the conNEcting Nebraska
Technology Team. Funding was provided by the USDA
National Pilot Rural Economic Development Initiative
in partnership with the Southern Rural Development
Center, University of Mississippi, New Mexico State
University, and the University of Nebraska - Lincoln.
This is a .pdf file.