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Sowing Seeds of Trust in Rural Nebraska |
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Answer: When Steve Buttress founded the Community Networking Institute (CNI) to help remote rural towns in Nebraska apply technology to overcome their economic isolation, he quickly set out to map the leadership in targeted communities. | Hampstead Heath, London, in March | |
Sequence: Assign a number (with decimals) determining the sequence of your question.: From Access to Outcomes, A Morino Institute Working Paper | Map: 2001-12-08 00:00:00 |
Mobilizing Local Leadership | ||||||
He cross-referenced leaders of churches, civic clubs, and other groups, looking for people with influential roles in multiple segments of the community. Buttress found that leaders fell into a few basic roles, such as recruiters, who knew and invited other participants; communicators, on whom he could rely to spread key messages; and blockers, who might be opposed to change in the community. His most important finding of the mapping process, though, was that the majority of communities, especially small ones, did not have strong leadership bases at all. | ||||||
Community Builder initiative with Nebraska Rural Development Committee | ||||||
To address the shortage, Buttress worked with the Nebraska Rural Development Commission to create Community Builders, an initiative in which older community leaders identify, mentor, and develop younger potential leaders. When trusted local leaders reached out to others in their communities?and when the communities realized that their futures were a matter of local will, vision, and effort?the project began to take off. | ||||||
Online network to connect rural manufacturers | ||||||
In one rural community, for example, a retired pharmacist used his local contacts to convince the hospital to donate space for a technology center. By working through trusted local leaders, Buttress was able to build an online network that connected rural manufacturers, enabling them to make joint purchases at a discount. Another network enabled veterinarians in widely separated rural communities to help each other solve business problems. “Finding the right people to work with was really the determining factor in whether we were going to be successful in a community,?EButtress says. |
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