This year's annual meeting will be held in June in the beautiful Minnesota River Valley near Morton. We welcome you to join our team as a new board member. Our July venue will be Rochester for the 3rd Annual Rural Summit . We need to work together, coordinate with one another, and re-think the development of a new generation of rural policy. We literally must create and learn a new set of rules and play a whole new ball game as society and our rural economy shifts and diversifies.
Rural development is an interdisciplinary sport.
Winning the Game takes Teamwork. Connections among all these variables create strategic advantage. Without connections, good intentions lose out to fragmentation and shared opportunities fall by the wayside. That's why it's important to make new linkages with folks and organizations you might not normally think of as being relevant to your goals. The Poet is the joiner, he sees how they join.