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Apaliyah, Godwin Tayese – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study examined community leadership education programs employed in rural communities and organizations of several states to empower both local leaders and residents. In particular, the study investigated the relationships between community leadership education program design and structure (contact hours and content) and six outcome indices of…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Field Trips, Community Development, Program Design
Southern Rural Development Center, Mississippi State, MS. – 1989
The background, organization, and recent publications of the Southern Rural Development Center (SDRC) are presented in this annual report of the 1988-1989 fiscal year. Forty-three activities and projects are briefly described, including conferences, meetings, and workshops sponsored and co-sponsored by SDRC. Four regional task forces are…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Community Development, Regional Programs, Rural Areas
Wells, Betty; And Others – Small Town, 1991
Community clusters allow small towns to combine their efforts to enhance economic development, promote tourism, or share public services. Two successful clusters of communities in Iowa are the Area Community Commonwealth and the North Iowa Rural Area Development. Both clusters participated in Iowa State University's Cooperative Extension Service…
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Community Development, Economic Development, Leadership Training
Norman, Charles; Brooks, Rusty – 1990
Rural economic development requires local consensus and a coordinated effort by community leaders and the public at large. In 12 rural Georgia counties, the University of Georgia is implementing a Rural Revitalization Initiative (RRI) that emphasizes collaboration of public officials and private individuals across disciplines, professions,…
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Community Coordination, Community Development, Cooperative Programs

Aboyade, B. Olabimpe – International Library Review, 1985
This paper focuses on intensified information transfer activities in rural areas of Nigeria: community development work, agricultural extension service, mass media (newspapers, television, radio, problems of communication), and the role of the library (reinforcing messages, repackaging information, acquiring specialized materials, coordinating…
Descriptors: Community Development, Developing Nations, Information Dissemination, Information Services
Reeder, Rick – Rural Conditions and Trends, 1999
Describes 1999 federal funding to large general-assistance programs affecting small towns and rural areas (including Housing and Urban Development, federal disaster relief, rural extension activities, and Bureau of Indian Affairs assistance programs); increased funding for Empowerment Zones/Enterprise Communities; reauthorization of the Economic…
Descriptors: Community Development, Conservation (Environment), Economic Development, Federal Aid
Vandehaar, Alan, Ed. – 1989
This booklet contains summaries of workshop presentations at the conference on community development. This conference brought local community officials and leaders together with interested citizens to learn about successful rural community development activities occurring in Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Sessions covered four main…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Cooperation, Community Development, Community Planning

Nelson, Philip J. – Great Plains Quarterly, 1999
In the 1940s, the Montana Study focused on engaging the University of Montana in outreach efforts in small towns, developing mechanisms to stabilize the family and small communities and improve the quality of small-town life. Its most popular activity was the creation of over a dozen community study groups aimed at community cultural renewal. (SV)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Community Education, Community Study
Norman, Charles – 1989
In recent years, service programs targeted for Georgia's rural communities have decreased proportionately in relation to those intended for the state's rapidly expanding population centers. At the same time, erosion of traditional manufacturing industries and an adverse agricultural economy have decreased the ability of rural communities to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Cooperative Programs, Developmental Programs
Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development, University Park, PA. – 1998
This annual report of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development (NERCRD) highlights the Center's activities, programs, projects, and publications for fiscal year 1998. NERCRD receives modest funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and other funds from private foundations. Funds are used to link rural development efforts of the 15…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Community Development, Conservation (Environment), Distance Education
La Caille John, Patricia, Comp. – 1989
This bibliography contains 126 entries of written materials available from the National Agricultural Library's (NAL) AGRICOLA database pertaining to agricultural or rural leadership. Each entry includes bibliographical information and the NAL call number, while some also include abstracts. All the listed materials, including books, reports,…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agriculture, Community Development, Community Leaders
Reeder, Rick – Rural Conditions and Trends, 2000
Describes general development assistance available to rural areas through federal programs that fund housing, extension education and research, rural community development, rural business development, resource conservation, and development activities in American Indian reservations and disadvantaged rural areas. (SV)
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, Community Development, Economic Development, Federal Aid
Ikerd, John – 2001
A 5-year collaborative project between Missouri, Michigan State, and Nebraska Universities to provide new opportunities for rural community self-development through sustainable agriculture had mixed results. This happened because community members did not understand the principles of sustainability, and because the extension education system was…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Agriculture, Community Development, Empowerment
Southern Rural Development Center, Mississippi State, MS. – 1990
Cooperative Extension Service personnel from 13 Southern states attended a conference on rural revitalization, focusing on Extension's role in (1) economic development, (2) human capital, and (3) infrastructure; 17 of the 22 papers presented are divided among those categories. Three of the remaining papers provide respectively, an overview of the…
Descriptors: Community Development, Economic Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Extension Education
John, Patricia La Caille – 1994
This bibliography contains 135 entries related to rural and community leadership. The entries were derived from the AGRICOLA database produced by the National Agricultural Library and include journal articles, extension bulletins, books, conference papers, and government reports. Entries cover such topics as community development, community…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Community Development, Community Leaders, Economic Development
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