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Revitalizing the Main Street, Revitalizing the Community – A Couple Drives Investment in Their Rural Oklahoma Hometown – How About Your Home Town? MEDA Can Help.

“Everyone needs to consider what they want their legacy to be and a lot of people don’t think about that at all – that you want your life to count for something,”

Could ‘Managed Retreat’ from Climate Change Revitalize Rural America?

Climate change will dislocate people in some cities. Many rural areas are losing population. Could a “climate-change Homestead Act” provide a solution?

Unleash your LIONs

The Local Investment Opportunity Network (LION) of Port Townsend, Washington, was formed in 2006 with a simple premise: local relationships are the basis for local investments.

A Systems Approach to Scaling Rural Co-op Efforts to Expand the Fiber Edge

The deployment in Turney will combine multiple wireless technologies into a single architecture using Radio Frequency (RF)-over-Fiber technology.

Diana Gordon Talks Immigration, on a Small-Town Scale

Former professor, author, and founder of the Small-town Immigration Clearinghouse, Gordon’s work shows that small-town decline is not inevitable, and that immigration often leads to revitalization.

Small Towns Making It Work

I’ll start with education, which builds the foundation for economic growth in a community.

From Extraction to Sustainability: Oregon’s Southern Coast and the Emerging Blue Economy

From the fishing industry, and the scientific community, to the local Tribe, diverse stakeholders are coming together to chart the course for a sustainable local economy with a global outlook on the environment.

Why Making Entrepreneurship a Community Priority Is Key to America’s Economic Recovery

As the U.S. celebrates Small Business Week, the time is ripe to take a fresh look at the critical role that business owners will play in the post-covid economic recovery–and how best to support and foster entrepreneurship.

USDA Seeks Comment on Ways to Help Businesses Start, Expand and Improve Cooperatives in Rural America

The Department is interested in stakeholders’ recommendations to streamline application requirements and
make other improvements to the Rural Cooperative Development Grant (RCDG) program.