Success Stories
Rural communities survive one business and one job at a time through revolving loan funds, training and technical assistance grants from the Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program (RMAP). RMAP loans to Microenterprise Development Organizations (MDOs) offer micro businesses opportunities for
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Jennifer Florio moved to the Northeast Kingdom with her young daughter, Anna, over 10 years ago. As a single mother, she felt that homeownership was beyond her reach, something only obtainable by couples who could support each other through the expensive and complex process of buying a home.
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Box Butte General Hospital in Alliance, NE was constructed in 1976. The hospital design, at the time, was based far more on inpatient-care and initially staffed 50 employees that by 2012 grew to almost 300 employees. The electrical, mechanical and plumbing needed major upgrades and the original
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Misty Nebel and her family had been seeking a new home to live in for an extended amount of time. Unfortunately, Nebel, a pre-school teacher at Fremont County Child Development Center, discovered how difficult it was to find a home in their income bracket.
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Legacy of the Plains Museum was formed in 2013, when North Platte Valley Historical Association and the Farm And Ranch Museum merged. In order to house both entities under one roof, the new organization approached the City of Gering to see if it had funding available. The museum, located on th
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USDA Rural Development began working with the City of Manistique in 2008 to fund projects resulting in over $30.3 million in upgrades to the drinking water treatment and distribution system, the sanitary sewage collection and treatment system and the storm water management system.
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USDA’s rural economic and development mission area was established in the 1930s primarily to assist rural electric cooperatives with bringing electricity to rural America.
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Trying to convince residents in Leon (pop. 1,900) that nothing exciting ever happens in a small town would be difficult task after the summer they experienced.
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Langford, SD is a small community nestled amongst the lakes and hills of the Prairie Pothole region of northeast South Dakota. But the last word that would describe Langford is “sleepy;” not when the town of 313 people raised $350,000 to build a full service restaurant, bar, meeting rooms, and 3
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The Sturgis Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) is looking ahead.
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