Vision Statement
The Partnership for Rural Nebraska is a cooperative commitment by the State of Nebraska, University of Nebraska, the Federal Government and Regional Groups to address rural opportunities and challenges identified by rural Nebraskans; to work together to meet those challenges and provide the resources and expertise to enhance development opportunities.
Mission Statement
The mission of the Partnership for Rural Nebraska is to improve the effectiveness of resources that support local-based rural development efforts statewide, and to better utilize human and financial resources for rural development.
The members of this cooperative relationship are committed to working with and supporting interested local, regional, statewide, and national partners.
The Partnership for Rural Nebraska’s partners will integrate their efforts and coordinate their resources to enhance rural research, policy analysis, program delivery, education and professional development.
Perspective
A formal structure for organizational collaboration, the Partnership for Rural Nebraska is a strategic partnership formed by three major institutions - the State of Nebraska, the University of Nebraska, and the U. S. Department of Agriculture in cooperation with rural Regional Groups of service-providers and community representation. Separately, each of these critical public institutions has a statewide mission and administrative responsibilities for a large percentage of the resources available to assist rural Nebraska.
Together, these institutions have the potential to leverage additional resources to benefit rural Nebraska, and to better utilize existing resources. The Partnership for Rural Nebraska concept builds upon positive results of voluntary communication and collaboration, both statewide and locally.
In a larger context, citizens across these United States are striving for more efficiency from federal state and local institutions and governments. Diminishing budgets to support needed programs and projects are a growing problem. Rural people, enterprises, and communities have long been frustrated with the fragmentation of and duplication among various development resource providers. Many rural people seek a more integrated and supportive system that is responsive to the needs of their communities and rural regions.
Nebraska has earned a national reputation for its progressive and enlightened rural development agenda, and is well positioned to demonstrate that this additional innovative approach to collaborative rural development – the Partnership for Rural Nebraska – is efficient, effective, and most importantly, sustainable.
Goals
√ Plan and program cross-training between the partners in order to improve program brokering.
√ Cooperate in the planning and delivery of program briefings to constituencies.
√ Provide financial and other support to regional groups and assistance in the successful and quality delivery of regional and local program services.
√ Provide consistent communication with constituent groups through Rural News Bits.
√ Provide education opportunities on rural development.
√ Create and implement a PRN annual plan of work.
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