by pcantrell | Nov 17, 2020 | Entrepreneurs, Home Page Featured Post 3, Hometown Revival, Rural Living
Appleton City, Missouri, is a small town, quite far from any major highway, that is quietly and deliberately building new Main Street culture and commerce. It’s a great story about innovation and investment in our rural west central Missouri region. Now our...
by pcantrell | Nov 9, 2020 | Entrepreneurs, News
Global Entrepreneurship Week is an international celebration of the innovators and job creators who launch startups and bring ideas to life. Founded by the Kauffman Foundation in 2008, it has since expanded to more than 160 countries. This year, west central...
by pcantrell | Oct 28, 2020 | Entrepreneurs, Home Page Featured Post 2, News
The U.S. Small Business Administration has awarded one of 30 national microenterprise assistance grants to West Central Missouri Community Action Agency. The one-year, $98,000 award will support West Central’s work with affiliate community development corporation New...
by pcantrell | Sep 16, 2020 | News, Rural Living
There is power in making your place, your hometown, a wonderful place to live. This may be obvious, but quality of life is often an afterthought in the economic development work of growing jobs and businesses. That’s why the new Hometown Revival podcast focuses...
by pcantrell | Aug 24, 2020 | Entrepreneurs, Home Page Featured Post 1, News, Rural Living
CAUTION: This article starts with a platitude, and then it hits you with reality. You’ll be glad you read it, because you will find a way to make a difference. Platitude (cliché truism): If you give someone a fish, you will feed them for the day. If you teach someone...
by pcantrell | Jun 30, 2020 | Food & Agriculture, Home Page Featured Post 3, News
Raydonna Biles makes lunch for her son every day. It keeps them both healthy. “I cook better for him than I would for myself alone. … Last time I went to the doctor, the doctor said, ‘Keep doing what you’re doing.’ My blood sugar was down. I’d lost weight.” Good...
by pcantrell | Jun 23, 2020 | Entrepreneurs, News
The global pandemic of 2020 has made starting and building a small business in west central Missouri even more difficult. Now a regional effort to develop micro loan financing for rural entrepreneurs is gaining the steam it needs to help local businesses get going and...
by pcantrell | Jun 17, 2020 | News, Rural Living, Transportation
Rides to Health and Wealth is a collaborative west central Missouri effort to build thriving people and places by increasing access to healthcare and community services using the HealthTran ride scheduling and resourcing platform. Rides to Health and Wealth...
by pcantrell | Apr 29, 2020 | Food & Agriculture, Home Page Featured Post 3, News
A perfect storm of food needs during the Covid-19 Crisis presents west central Missouri with an unprecedented opportunity to strengthen local people and places with farm fresh foods. The free webinar Feed Communities Local Food Now is designed to help west central...
by pcantrell | Apr 16, 2020 | Entrepreneurs, Food & Agriculture, News
Local food farmer Katie Nixon is thankful, during this Covid-19 market upheaval, that she and her husband had put time into setting up an online ordering system. It has become critical for marketing the organic fruit, vegetables, and bedding plants they produce at...
