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Deb Brown and Becky McCray will be speaking at the International Economic Development Council (IEDC) Annual Conference in Dallas on September 17, 2023. As co-founders of SaveYour.Town, we…
To find out what rural people felt were their biggest challenges, SaveYour.Town and SmallBizSurvival.com surveyed 315 rural people from the US, Canada and Australia between November 2022 and…
2023 Theme: The Idea Friendly Way is the Easy Way We have new tools and new ways to do things. No one has to take minutes, and no…
SaveYour.Town is not a grant writing service. We are not a grant finding service. But folks often ask us about finding grants or finding grant writers. We hate…
We’d like your help to get an updated view of the challenges to your community and your business, and what’s working well or not so much.
Welcoming new residents means dealing with those members of your community who are not so open to new people moving in. Practical step 1: Magnify stories of people…
Cooperatives can play a big role in small towns, providing products and services to fill gaps as well as giving local people a share of ownership. Rural cooperatives…
We’re living through a shift in power, to one that is more open to participation by people outside of our formal organization. For local leaders and officials, it’s…
One of my longtime friends in Oklahoma, Melyn Johnson from micropolitan Guymon, Oklahoma, told me a cool thing they do at a local event: they do a parade…
Who knows what trends will affect small and rural communities in 2022 and beyond? Not many trends pieces cover rural places. These trends are specifically about rural and small…
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