Success Stories by Topic: Economic development

• Rural Opportunities Enterprise Center
  September 2009
  The Center provides information on business start-up and expansion and offers microloans to qualifying businesses.
• Bear Lake Memorial Hospital, Montpelier
  July 2008
  In cooperation with community and regional organizations, Bear Lake has been successful in strengthening the economy of Southeast Idaho and expanding the availability of modern, high quality health care throughout a very large service area.
• Affordable Workforce Housing in Blackduck, Minnesota
  June 2007
  An urgent need for affordable workforce housing in Blackduck, Minnesota was solved by an ambitious four-year project to build a 21-unit subdivision by 2005.
• Dickenson County Virginia Child Care Center
  June 2007
  Several organizations in Dickenson County Virgina worked together to build a state-of-the-art child care facility to serve workers at technology-based customer-service call centers.
• Healthy Connections West
  July 2005
  The goal of this project was to provide mental health intervention services to targeted children and their families in order to achieve improved academic and social performance.