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Community Design
Creative Capital (Education & Culture)
Financial Resources
Health Care

Metropolitan Economic Development Association(MEDA)
Provides assistance to businesses owned by ethnic minorities.

National Association for Community Leadership
NACL's mission is to strengthen and transform communities by enhancing the capacity of inclusive, community leadership development efforts.

National Association of Development Organizations (NADO)
Provides training, information and representation for regional development organizations

National Center for Small Communities
Nonprofit organization devoted exclusively to serving the leaders of America’s smaller communities

National Rural Development Partnership
The mission of the National Rural Development Partnership (NRDP or Partnership) is to strengthen rural America through collaborative partnerships.

Red River Trade Corridor
A regional, rural development organization dedicated to enhance the quality of life for the U.S. states of Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

Rural & Remote Canada Online
A single window to knowledge, information, programs and services for and about rural Canada.  We include links to sites that provide our clients with useful information, lessons learned and community practices in other regions and countries.

Community Development Tools

Community Toolbox
Resource materials for community improvement

Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community Program
A joint effort of USDA and HUD

Hands Net
Linking the human services community online

National Commission on Entrepreneurship Enews & Update
An email-based newsletter

The Northern Tier High Technology Corridor is an online business resource for northern Minnesota, providing Minnesota Economic development tools, information on Minnesota assistance for nonprofit businesses, RFP listings, Minnesota communities of practice and collaborative knowledge management

Sustainable Communities Network
Linking citizens to resources and to one another to create healthy, vital, sustainable communities

W.K. Kellogg Collection of Rural Community Development Resources
An extensive collection covering a wide variety of topics.

Conservation Resources

Center for Excellence for Sustainable Development
A tremendous amount of information from the US Dept. of Energy

Community Stewardship Exchange
Community-based strategies that preserve ecological integrity

Minnesota Rural Electric Association
A service organization for electric cooperatives in Minnesota

Minnesota Rural Water Association
Provide the latest information, education and technical assistance to protect our public waters and improve the quality of life in Minnesota.

Rural Community Assistance Program
Their mission is to help rural people to improve the quality of life in their communities.

Sustainable Minnesota
Lots of sustainable development information and resources

Public Policy

Association of Minnesota Counties
A voluntary statewide organization that assists the state’s 87 counties in providing effective county governance to the people of Minnesota

Center for Rural Policy & Development
Rural policy think tank housed at Minnesota State University, Mankato

Center for the Study of Rural America
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City has launched the Center to focus on economic and policy issues that are unique to rural America

Communicating for Agriculture
A rural advocacy group dedicated to the preservation and strengthening of rural America

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Based in Minneapolis, IATP's mission is to create environmentally and economically sustainable communities and regions through sound agriculture and trade policy

LawMoose
Easy-to-use information about law and the legal community, including: LawMoose legal web sites search engine, legal resource directories, Judges directories, and legal articles index.

League of Minnesota Cities
Brings diverse municipal groups together to create a collective voice for cities

New Rules Project
From the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, they focus on designing rules as if community matters

North Star
Home page for the State of Minnesota

Rural Policy Institute (RUPRI)
RUPRI conducts policy-relevant research and facilitates public dialogue to assist policymakers in understanding the rural impacts of public policies and programs.

Agriculture B2B Directory
A comprehensive Agricultural Directory

Agriculture Network Information Center
A distributed network that provides access to agriculture-related information, subject area experts, and other resources

Agri Surf
Search sites of agricultural interest

AgriSeek.com
Description :Marketplace to aid those in the agricultural field in buying and selling agriculture, gardening, farming, livestock, equipment, agrochemicals, farm animals and much more

American Farmland Trust
Works to stop the loss of productive farmland and to promote farming practices that lead to a healthy environment

EliteFarmer.com
Aims to disseminate information of use to people with small farms or rural property. Topics include agriculture and farming. Most documents are in pdf format.

Farm Bill Update
Information on the 2002 Farm Bill

ForFarmers.com
ForFarmers combines a worldwide news service with an interactive business directory and information service for the agricultural industry.

Minnesota Farmers Union
Advocacy for rural communities and the people who live there

Education Resources

Center for Rural Community Revitalization
A Nebraska organization with plenty of useful information about rural issues

Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA)
An applied research and technology center at the U of M that connects faculty and students with nonprofit organizations, ethnic and racial minority groups, businesses, rural towns, inner-city neighborhoods, suburban communities, local governments, and public agencies in Minnesota.

Communities by Choice
Fosters learning among individuals, community groups, businesses and policy-makers by providing the best sustainable community development resources available.

Community Assistantship Program
A program of CURA that provides applied research assistance to community-based nonprofit organizations, citizen groups, and government agencies throughout Greater Minnesota.

Minnesota Agriculture in the Classroom
Helping K-12 students and teachers understand the importance of agriculture

Minnesota Rural Arts Initiative
To strengthen communities and individuals in rural Minnesota through long-term collaborative projects that engage local artists, schools, and community groups.

Minnesota Technology Inc.
MTI assists industry in applying, developing and commercializing technology

North Central Regional Center for Rural Development
One of four regional centers coordinating rural development research and education throughout the United States

Rural Challenge
Support for rural schools

University of Minnesota Extension
Educational outreach with offices in every Minnesota county

Research Reports

Aspen Institute
A wealth of information on the impact of public policy on community concerns

Governor Ventura's speech
From the 1999 Rural Summit

Federal Gateway
A good place to start when seeking information from a federal government agency

Fedstats
Statistics from more than 70 federal agencies

Minnesota Horizons 2002 (Click here for PDF document) (Click here for Word document)
MRP presents the impact of immigration on rural communities

Minneapolis Federal Reserve Publications
Various reports on the financial status

Minnesota Milestones
Report uses 70 progress indicators to determine whether the state is achieving 19 publicly determined goals

Northern Great Plains Initiative for Rural Development
Strives to serve, support, and promote community development in rural areas of the Northern Great Plains by furthering practices consistent with the recommendations of the Northern Great Plains Rural Development Commission

Renewing the Countryside
Showcases outstanding examples of people working to enhance their rural communities and regions

Rural Information Center
National Agricultural Library

Rural Society
A journal of rural social issues

USDA Rural Development
Information of countless federal programs related to rural development

Check out Finance Avenue

Minnesota Rural Health Association's Legislative Center
Brings together diverse interests to address rural health issues and advocates for and with rural Minnesotans

National Rural Health Association
A national membership organization whose mission is to improve the health and health care of rural Americans and to provide leadership on rural issues through advocacy, communications, education and research

Minnesota Rural Health Weekly
An email-based newsletter

Vital Aging Network
Provides resources for just about any issue "vital agers" (loosely defined as anyone age 55 or better) may encounter.