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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 ...

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

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

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

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

Kristi Wagner of Whitewood was reelected the board president during a meeting today in Pierre. Carmen Schramm* of Yankton was reelected vice...

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

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

Winter in Wessington Springs is pretty magical. There are sleigh rides (or hayrack rides during this COVID year), a sledding hill that featu...

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

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