Sessions Tagged With 'ncrcrd'

This webinar addresses entrepreneurial strategies and practices that were found to enhance the sustainability of family owned businesses in rural communities during recessionary times. Family businesses not only provide the economic base for many rural communities, they...

Presented by: Kadi Row, Mary Ann Schilling, Cody Fredrick, and Kathy Staats (University of Wisconsin)Reducing Rural Cancer Disparities Together is a collaborative effort between the University of Wisconsin-Extension and the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center. The...

Economic inequality is one of our society’s “wicked” problems. It is both a challenge to our continued ability to develop and an opportunity to effect positive change. A promising approach to addressing this problem is social entrepreneurship, which takes the mindset,...

What is it that makes some organisations able to not only survive, but also to thrive in the face of adversity? Resilience is a systemic way of looking at how an organization can prepare before, survive during and thrive after a crisis. Each organisation has their own...

This webinar will be hosted by John Mann at the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, and presented by Rachel Poole.We will share results from interviews of different Michigan organizations that provide support to rural firms. Our research goals, identify:...

Although community members and community educators frequently complain about the lack of leadership in rural and small communities and are frustrated by their attempts to build local capacity for leadership, the issue of leadership has been largely ignored in the community...

Dr. Mancl will discuss her new wastewater treatment technology that helped an Ohio meat processor save over $10 million dollars. Background: A sand bioreactor system was developed based on research conducted at The Ohio State University. This university-industry partnership...

Learn how Extension can do a better job in working with their Native communities and as concerned citizen’s involve the population in a more meaningful and creative way? This initiative provided three levels of training on community development; analysis, planning, and...

About the webinar: To evaluate the extent to which Extension’s strategic planning practices vary across and within states, researchers from University of Illinois Extension and Ohio State University Extension conducted a series of investigative procedures to determine how,...

About the webinar: Higher oil prices have caused rapid development in the Bakken oil field, centered in western North Dakota, leading to economic, social and environmental policy challenges. The Bakken Researchers’ Convening, hosted by the Strom Center of Dickinson State...

About the webinar: Funded by the National Science Foundation and led by a cross-disciplinary committee of faculty from research institutions across North America, the Energy Impacts Research Coordination Network seeks to overcome topical, disciplinary, and geographic silos...

Strategies for Developing Successful CRED Extension Programs: Perspectives of a Program LeaderDr. Tim Borich (Iowa State University) will be drawing upon his Extension experience from the local, state, regional and national levels, and engage participants with some of the...

About the webinar: Inequality in America is high and rising, or so we're frequently reminded. What exactly, though, does "inequality" mean? In this presentation Professor Coggins will explain how the top income share, the fraction of all income going to the...

You know how your Extension programs benefit your participants, but your programs also create public value when they benefit the rest of the community. Nationwide, participants in “Building Extension’s Public Value” workshops have learned how their programs create public...

The author of “Rural development policy in the United States: a critical analysis and lessons from the ‘‘still birth’’ of the rural collaborative investment program” (Community Development Vol. 42, No. 1, January–March 2011, 56–69) will summarize this paper in about 30...