HomeTown Competitiveness

HomeTown Competitiveness is a come-back, give-back approach to rural community building that provides a comprehensive strategy for long-term rural community sustainability. This approach was developed and field-tested by four partnering organizations: the Nebraska Community Foundation, the RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship, the Heartland Center for Leadership Development, and the Center for Rural Affairs. Don Macke is the Center’s Project Director for HTC. For more information about HTC, contact Don at don@e2mail.org.

Members of the HTC Team:

Jed Wagner’s areas of expertise include community development process, business transfer, family business and Main Street development. Over the past 15 years, Jed has acquired considerable field experience working in community economic development.

Leon Atwell heads up the HTC work in Kansas. His areas of expertise are in entrepreneurial development and leadership. Leon has extensive experience with entrepreneurial ventures, corporate America and rural Kansas.

The RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship

The RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship strives to be the focal point for efforts to stimulate and support private and public entrepreneurship development in communities throughout rural America. By supporting practice-driven research and evaluation and facilitating shared learning among practitioners, researchers and policy makers, the Center works to encourage entrepreneurship development as an effective route to building prosperous, dynamic, and sustainable rural economies. The Center is part of the Rural Policy Research Institute, an organization dedicated to providing unbiased analysis and information on the challenges, needs, and opportunities facing rural America. To learn more about RUPRI, go to www.rupri.org.


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