Events

The Rural Broadband Network Association (NTCA) is hosting a panel discussion at it annual conference: "Gigabit Community Panel". Panelists include: Moderator: Shirley Bloomfield, CEO, NTCA
Gary Johnson, GM of Paul Bunyan Communications
Joe Reardon, former Mayor of Kansas City
Don Macke, Center for Rural Entrepreneurship
Host: Dennis McGarry, NTCA

The Center for Rural Entrepreneurship invites you to engage in "A Dialogue on Generational Diversity and Community Building", a brand-new three-part webinar series designed to:

1. Share research on the generational makeup of the U.S. and its implications for community decision making. Presenters:
Ahmet Binerer, Senior Associate, Center for Rural Entrepreneurship
Craig Schroeder, Senior Fellow, Center for Rural Entrepreneurship

2. Share stories and ideas for engaging the generations in community philanthropy. Presenters:
Judy Johnson
Executive Director
Washington County Community Foundation
Indiana

Bonnie Hildreth
President and CEO
Barry Community Foundation
Michigan

3. Share stories and ideas for engaging the generations in economic development. Presenters:
Nicole Sedlacek
Executive Director
Holt County Economic Development
Nebraska

Judy Sjostedt
Executive Director
Parkersburg Area Community Foundation
West Virginia

When you register for the series, we’ll send you the Center’s new white paper - "Understanding Generational Diversity: Implications for Community Building." We’ll also share a Story Bio for each of our presenters so that you can learn more. During the third webinar, we’ll provide a guide to organizing a Community Dialogue on Generational Diversity in your own community as an action step and follow up to the series.

We are offering this lunch time series for $249. We invite and encourage you to gather a group of community leaders and watch the webinar together. You may want to extend a special invitation to foundation staff, board members and volunteers – anyone engaged in philanthropy. And, we encourage you to invite community leaders engaged in economic development.

The Center is partnering with The Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group to present "Advancing Economic Success – Community Foundations Building Family, Community and Regional Prosperity," a 2-day workshop March 16-17. This peer exchange workshop will provide an opportunity for community foundation leaders (staff, board, and volunteers) to more deeply explore and share how they are addressing critical community issues and working to advance regional development in ways that build wealth for all. Using the organizing framework of Community Development Philanthropy, you will hear stories from community foundations that are helping families get ahead and those that are helping local and regional economies get ahead. As you listen to your peers and share your own insights, you will be developing Action Idea Takeaways as next steps for when you return home.

Don Macke will be part of a panel focusing on entrepreneurs as a development strategy at the Nebraska CIRD workshop with rural communities in Lancaster County. This event is open to the public and is part of a 3-day workshop beginning Thursday, March 19 and ending Saturday, March 21. Event host: Lincoln & Lancaster County Planning Department