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Russell Shaffer | Rural Prosperity Nebraska

Employee makes peace sign from inside Mena's Kitchen food truck

Latino Small Business Program gains momentum

July 6, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Austin Arens scouts aspen trees to be planted along Valentine’s Main Street this fall.

Husker alumnus instrumental in Valentine’s downtown revitalization

June 22, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

A crowd of people walks by vendor tents during an East Campus Discovery Days farmers market in Lincoln in summer 2021.

Kearney, Seward farmers markets become SNAP certified

May 27, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Helen Fagan, Rural Fellows coordinator, meets with student fellows Brianna Gable, Benjamin Niyodusenga and Lillian Uwanjye; Susan Norris, director of Pierce County Economic Development; and Wanda Backus, owner of J’s Place.

26 students begin Rural Fellows experiences

May 24, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

A Peninsula Homecare Cooperative caregiver interacts with a client in Port Townsend, Washington. A weekly online academy, May 4 through June 8, will walk rural Nebraska leaders through creating homecare co-ops in their communities.

Collaboration brings homecare cooperative academy to Nebraska

April 26, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Jonathan Jank, president and CEO of the Seward County Chamber and Development Partnership, speaks at the Sunrise Bakery in McCook during the 2019 CEC Conference.

CEC Conference promotes local entrepreneurial development

April 20, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

The Leadership Wayne groups meets with Senator Joni Albrecht during a visit to the state capitol.

Leading Locally program helps create leaders in rural communities

April 6, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

A Lynch resident buys groceries at Valley Foods Cooperative.

A community of cooperation: Lynch opens cooperative grocery store

March 23, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Daniela Manhani Mattos teaches agricultural economics on East Campus.

Manhani Mattos advises students in community development

March 9, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Tilden residents discuss their community’s strengths and shortcomings during their inaugural Entrepreneurial Communities Activation Process meeting.

ECAP program helps Nebraskans create communities they want

February 23, 2022

Amanda Kowalewski writes down residents’ ideas about community development during an Entrepreneurial Community Activation Process meeting in Tilden, Nebraska.

Kowalewski focuses on building strong, resilient communities

February 9, 2022

Student Fellows Jeanne Itetere (left), Brianna Gable (center) and Benjamin Niyodusenga worked in Pierce, Nebraska, as part of the 2021 Rural Fellowship program.

Former Rural Fellows say program helped them gain skills, knowledge

January 25, 2022

Agriculture & Environment