
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...

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...

Celebrating the Fruits of Gregory County’s Empower Process

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...

Rural is Trending: Rural Towns Attractive to Workers, usinesses

Virtual Coffee Breaks Strengthen Rural Ties

RuralX Watch Parties Cultivate Local Collaboration

True or False: Collaborative Leadership Exists in My Community?

Connecting Ideas to Capital: Business Incubator Thrives

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, ...

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...

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 ...

Officers Reelected for Governor’s Tourism Advisory Board

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...

Thriving Rural Day Kicked Off Dakota Resources 25th Anniversary

Wessington Springs Builds Community through Winter Park and Holiday Magic

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...

RuralX 2020: In Your Words
The real success comes from our attendees. Recently, several of them told Dakota Resources about their takeaways, their favorite...