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The owner of the Sandhills Art and Metal Gallery in Valentine serves ice cream to two boys. Rural Prosperity Nebraska’s Red Carpet Service program teaches participants how to help visitors and showcase their community’s best qualities.

Red Carpet Service program focuses on community awareness, tourist attraction

June 6, 2024

Rural Prosperity Nebraska welcomes newest Extension educator

May 7, 2024

The intersection of Central Avenue and West 22nd Street in downtown Kearney. The city recently participated in a First Impressions experience with Hays, Kansas.

Kearney, Hays gain insights through First Impressions program

May 6, 2024

A woman participates in a table discussion during the Leadership Chautauqua event held in December in Kearney, Neb.” Photo by Russell Shaffer

Rural Prosperity Nebraska propels rural leadership development forward with statewide virtual conferences

April 12, 2024

Niobrara River west of Valentine, NE. July 12, 2019. Photo by Craig Chandler

Rural Prosperity Nebraska opens discussion about climate resiliency

April 8, 2024

Carl Simmons of Golden Prarie Bison presents on creating a niche tourism market at Price’s Gallery, in Valentine, at the 2023 CEC Conference. Photo by Russell Shaffer

Conference Focuses on entrepreneurial development in Nebraska communities

March 29, 2024

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Rural Prosperity Nebraska helps bring broadband to rural Thayer County

March 28, 2024

Buy Fresh Buy Local booth at East Campus Discovery Days

Buy Fresh Buy Local opens membership registration for 2024 season

March 5, 2024

Sign for the Valley Foods Cooperative grocery store in Lynch, Neb. Photo by Russell Shaffer

2024 cooperative business development mini-grant program request for applications

February 9, 2024

The newly remodeled Hey Honey Boutique boasts original brickwork and tin ceiling tiles.

Rural Prosperity Nebraska helps Ord business expand

February 6, 2024

Benson Bounty presents ‘Planting a Profitable Pollinator Habitat with Native Nebraska Plants,’ a SARE-funded project that explored the profitability of growing native perennial plants and marketing them through a variety of channels. Photo by Sydney Sehi

Registration is open for the annual Local Food & Healthy Farms conference

January 3, 2024

Stock photo of small town at sunset.

Agriculture and community wellbeing: A review of three research studies

December 15, 2023