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In his letter to rural shapers at the end of 2021, Dakota Resources President Joe Bartmann talked about one big initiative in 2022: launchin...

Quite simply, community dialogue is an exchange of ideas and experiences through listening, sharing, and questioning. At its bes...

It’s been said that to be a leader is a verb, not a noun, and that’s an adage that aligns with Dakota Resources’ Ali Sheley. This mont...

Community Coaching with Dakota Resources looks different for each community, and so it should, as each community has distinct ne...

If you ever read a “Choose Your Adventure” book as a child, we at Dakota Resources hope to harken back to that eXperience this summer at...

Community and economic development work is often complex and can mean many different things. For this reason, Dakota Resources recently cond...

Community and economic development work is often complex and can mean many different things. For this reason, Dakota Resources recently cond...

Most passionate community leaders communicate with the best intentions and are genuinely excited about sharing publicly and cele...

What a year it’s been - and what a remarkable 25 years it’s been! I hope this message greets you as you anticipate the together...

For Nick Fosheim, Dakota Resources’ new Client Relationship Director and Community Coach, his sense of place began as a child growing up i...

At Dakota Resources’ Learning Network Gathering Awards Banquet in Mitchell, SD, held on November 3, 2021, three honorees recei...

Like a mechanic needs easy access to the right tools, our local community economic development organizations need easy access to...

It’s been said that we’re living in the age of empowerment, and at Dakota Resources, that’s never been more true. And while empowering...

The classic “chicken and egg” debate has never quite found its solution, and across rural South Dakota, a similar deliberati...

Several smaller South Dakota towns are proving that economic development isn’t simply a tally of the number of jobs created. For those hop...

Coffee is known to many as the lifeblood of the working class, but when the world meaningfully changed in March 2020 in response to the COVI...

Attending a virtual conference may seem like experiencing the best of both worlds - all the learning without the travel - but in order to fo...

True collaboration can develop when organizations and leaders recognize that none of us can truly succeed without the assets and innovation ...