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Blog|Entrepreneurship Five reasons mentorship matters for rural tech startups

Author Maia Patrick Donohue offers five things to know about mentorship that show how it can be so important for rural tech entrepreneurs.

August 31, 2021

Blog|Future Of Work, Tech Economies Expanded AmeriCorps VISTA program kicks off with orientation in Springfield

July 29, 2021

Blog|Entrepreneurship, Tech Economies, Tech-Based Economic Development Why coworking and entrepreneurship spaces are crucial to digital economic development

The second part of a three-part series on the infrastructure needed to build digital economy ecosystems in rural America.

July 7, 2021

Blog|Entrepreneurship, Tech Economies Five startups that show rural innovation is way more than ag tech

Too often, we have conversations with people who believe that agriculture technology is the only innovation that could occur in rural America. But let's be clear: That notion is woefully incomplete.

June 23, 2021

Blog|Broadband, Tech Economies Why broadband is essential to participate in the digital economy

The first part of a three-part series on the pieces of necessary infrastructure required to build digital economy ecosystems in rural America.

June 16, 2021

Blog|Direct Investment, Entrepreneurship, Tech-Based Economic Development How the Vermont Community Foundation is trying to spark entrepreneurship in rural VT

As part of its efforts to support economic resilience, the Vermont Community Foundation invested $250,000 in a partnership with the Center on Rural Innovation to fund CORI's digital economic strategy services in five Vermont communities.

June 8, 2021