Shanna and Jackie were delighted to participate in the NGFN Food Hub Collaboration Spring 2014 Conference from March 26-28 in Raleigh…
Innovators in Rural Community Economic Development
Shanna and Jackie were delighted to participate in the NGFN Food Hub Collaboration Spring 2014 Conference from March 26-28 in Raleigh…
Samantha and I recently joined our colleague, Matt Robbie from Skeo Solutions, to speak to an undergraduate class at the University of…
Earlier this month, I was back in Helena, Arkansas to facilitate a meeting to begin a process of thinking about tourism planning for Helena. I’m lucky to be working with David Brown of Solimar…
The Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs has published its Spring 2014 issue of Rural Research Report (Volume 24, Issue 1), featuring a paper by Melissa Levy, Senior Associate at Yellow Wood Associates,…
This should be of interest to those of you working in community forestry.
U.S. Forest Service Fiscal Year 2015 Urban and Community Forestry grants: http://www.fs.fed.us/ucf/nucfac.shtml
Here is an interesting potential funding source for food-related co-ops that can be used to improve organizational capacity as illustrated.
The Bowers Fund: http://www.cdf.coop/about-bowers-fund/
I had the opportunity to visit Helena, Arkansas a few weeks ago as part of some work I’m doing with Walton Family Foundation…
Investments in biomass pre-feasibility studies are starting to pay off. Two Maine schools that received pre-feasibility studies from Yellow Wood Associates in 2012 through the US Forest Service Wood…
Two funding opportunities highlighted in the January 2014 Rural LISC newsletter may be of particular interest to our colleagues.
From the newsletter:
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