Tag: social capital

How local businesses build empathy, and what that means for rural communities

By Becky McCray I’ve been thinking lately how many large challenges we face as a society that come down to not thinking from other people’s perspectives. Our communities…

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SaveYour.Town’s Year-long commitment to you: building community despite divisions

SaveYour.Town creates a lasting legacy for rural people. That’s our informal mission statement. (If you know us, you know why we don’t have a formal mission statement!) At…

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Projects everyone can be part of bring your community together

Painting murals using the paint by numbers method is a great way to bring people together and rally your community. In Webster City, Iowa, four groups–government, business, education…

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