Who can help our community with a Business, Retention and Expansion Survey?

Community Resources and Economic Development
Defining community can be difficult, as community means different things to different people. Community development is not the same as community growth or expansion. The role of community development is to accomplish the community's purpose, or why it exists, with quality and balance. This is done with the larger community in mind and is the responsibility of all residents of the community. North Dakota State University sees itself as part of the community of North Dakota. As a resident of this larger community our role is to utilize the human and technical resources of NDSU to help individual communities, large and small, accomplish the communities' purpose. The NDSU Extension Service has a long history of working with rural communities in such areas as leadership development, strategic planning, business retention and expansion and youth entrepreneurship activities. If your community is just beginning to the planning process NDSU has resources available to assist you with the strategic planning and/or the business retention and expansion process. After specific needs (projects) have been identified IBID can help by finding the appropriate resources at NDSU to get the issue resolved.
Classes/Events/Workshops
http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/ccv/events.htm 
Publications
http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/ccv/publist
Useful Web Sites
Farm and Ranch Recreation Resource Directory
http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/ced/resources/farmranch/introduction.htm 
Leadership Web Sites
http://www.ext.nodak.edu/leader.htm