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.

What We Will Do 
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. Our assistance will be prompt and one-on-one. All proprietary information will be held confidential. We will then provide assistance through our own expertise and/or looking up information. If it is a question beyond our expertise or scope, we will refer you to other resources. After we provide the assistance, we will send you a brief evaluation survey to determine your satisfaction and the economic impact of our assistance.

Classes/Events/Workshops 
http://www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/ccv/events

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