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Blog __ LN Award Winners

Dakota Resources’ Learning Network Honors Award Winners

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

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The Role of Public Policy in Rural Community Economic Development

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

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Blog __ Gregory County Empower Process

Celebrating the Fruits of Gregory County’s Empower Process

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...
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Blog __ CIF Housing

Far From the Chicken and the Egg: Communities Investing in Rural Housing

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

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Blog __ Rural is Trending

Rural is Trending: Rural Towns Attractive to Workers, usinesses

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

Virtual Coffee Breaks Strengthen Rural Ties

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...
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Blog __ RuralX Watch Parties

RuralX Watch Parties Cultivate Local Collaboration

Attending a virtual conference may seem like experiencing the best of both worlds - all the learning without the travel - but in order to fo...
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True or False: Collaborative Leadership Exists in My Community?

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

Connecting Ideas to Capital: Business Incubator Thrives

Research Park was able to utilize the Community Development Loan program to equip and support businesses to grow and conduct game-changing r...
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Blog __ Redefined Rural

Sharing a Redefined Rural Narrative of South Dakota

Last year, one of our own, Director of Integrated Marketing Tyrelle Brakke, who grew up in the small rural town of Timber Lake, ...

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Six questions with Dakota Resource’s Ellie Naasz

Ellie Naasz, our Director of Community Impact, recently sat down with her hometown newspaper, the Southern Union County Leader-C...

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Blog __ Stop Talking About Your Problems

Stop Talking About Your Problems

In developing an agile economy we need to leave behind the old problem-centric mindsets and develop new collaborative behaviors ...

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Officers Reelected for Governor’s Tourism Advisory Board

Kristi Wagner of Whitewood was reelected the board president during a meeting today in Pierre. Carmen Schramm* of Yankton was reelected vice...
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What would your community’s New Year’s resolution be for 2021?

"Why do some rural communities thrive, and others drop off the map?" My observations have revealed that thriving communities emp...

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Blog __ Thriving Rural Day

Thriving Rural Day Kicked Off Dakota Resources 25th Anniversary

As part of the Dakota Resources 25th Anniversary celebration, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem issued a proclamation declaring January 2, 2...
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Blog __ Wessington Springs

Wessington Springs Builds Community through Winter Park and Holiday Magic

Winter in Wessington Springs is pretty magical. There are sleigh rides (or hayrack rides during this COVID year), a sledding hill that featu...
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Lin Van Hofwegen Leaves A Legacy and Lots of Memories

Lin Van Hofwegen joined the staff in 2005, the second hire for the organization, starting in an administrative role. Fifteen yea...

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Blog __ RuralX 2020

RuralX 2020: In Your Words

The real success comes from our attendees. Recently, several of them told Dakota Resources about their takeaways, their favorite...

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