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Business and Economic Development
HomeTown Competiveness
Entrepreneurial Community
The vision of the Garden County Entrepreneurial Community is to create the
capacity of rural residents to generate and retain wealth in Garden County.
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Goal 1: Identify lead organization members to direct the economic
development process in Garden County.
Objective 1: Establish structure for steering committee.
Objective 2: Develop committee structure to retain involvement of and
coordinate efforts between all partners and social and service
organizations.
Objective 3: Contract with local person to coordinate grant project.
Objective 4: Review policies that promote or limit economic development.
Objective 5: Provide central location to coordinate development and share
resources.
Objective 6: Establish time table for reporting and evaluating progress.
Review goals and objectives, evaluate progress of ongoing training and
celebrate successes. Include community input in process. Publicize
successes.
Evaluation criteria:
- Working steering committee
- Working committees
- Hire contract coordinator
- Identification and changes in policies that discourage economic
development
- Published evaluation
- Community celebration
Goal 2: Train community residents in strategic planning methods to allow
for broad-based planning in the county including youth, business community
and support services.
Objective 1: Hold 2 open meetings to train residents in strategic planning
methods using Take 5 approach.
Objective 2: Involve high school students in county economic development
through youth planning and training, membership in county organizations and
with specific projects.
Objective 3: Identify and develop community vision.
Objective 4: Conduct focus group discussion of new and future entrepreneurs
to determine technical assistance and training needs. Include agriculture,
established businesses, home based businesses, hunting/fishing services.
Objective 5: Identify and collect data, surveys and planning documents that
already exist for County and make available to public.
Evaluation Criteria:
- 2 Strategic planning training sessions attended by at least 20
people.
- High School planning sessions led by high school students
- Published community vision
- Focus group, interviews and surveys completed with identified
training needs.
- Economic development plan published
Goal 3:Provide training for business development and retention.
Objective 1: Provide at least 2 training sessions in marketing and other
area identified through community planning (e.g. tourism, coop, business
plan development, grant writing).
Objective 2: Work with community college and school to provide training
programs and possible credit or certificate from college for successful
completion.
Objective 3: Connect to existing training programs in the region to provide
in-depth training including at least 2 people to Home Town Competitiveness
training.
Objective 4: Identify specific needs for trained personnel (e.g. nurses) and
educate populace and students to need and identify sources of scholarships
to help provide training. Encourage local scholarship donors to target
these needs.
Evaluation Criteria:
- At least 2 training programs in marketing and other critical skill
for economic growth identified in community.
- At least 20 people trained in each skill area
- College credit classes arranged with WNCC for distance learning.
- Tuition partial payments for residents taking extended training.
For more information, contact:
Jean Jensen
Volunteers of America
PO Box 128
Lewellen NE 69147
308-778-5548
Fax: 308-778-5547
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