Community Enrichment

Community Assessment

Professionals with expertise in various areas of community development provide a community-based assessment, recommendations that address your community's specific issues, follow-up support, and a means to rally unity among your community's citizens.

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Community Cluster Initiative

The Chamberlain-Oacoma Area of South Dakota to participate in 'governance' pilot project

The Rural Governance Initiative, a program of the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI), has been exploring how rural people and institutions make decisions about their collective well being, in other words, the process of governance. 'Governance' is not only the good management practices of governments. It's also includes a variety of sound decisions-making and implementing practices by a wide range of people, organizations and institutions beyond government: non-profit groups, faith-based organizations, community foundations, citizen's alliances, community colleges, business associations, and others. Simply put, governance is about how choices are made and carried through, and who has a say.

The Rural Governance Initiative is leading a Community Clustering Initiative, (CCI) to test the RGI's principles of effective governance in 3 multi-community clusters in the rural northwest. The CCI will conduct an assessment of the value of these principles, especially community people from other sectors-civic, business and youth. The initiative's primary objective is to influence rural government leaders to place citizen engagement and poverty reduction higher on their list of priorities.

LeadershipPlenty Lake Francis Case

The LeadershipPlenty Class

The LeadershipPlenty Class was comprised of several individuals in the Lake Francis Case area. The LeadershipPlenty curriculum was developed by the Pew Partnership for Civic Change and is a hand on learning experience. For 9 weeks participants of LeadershipPlenty LFC learned how to build partnerships by working together, how to take action on behalf of their communities, how to identify the assets of their communities as well as learning how to effectively manage conflict within communities and planning strategies for the growth and development of their communities.

Contact Information

LeadershipPlenty is a Pew Partnership for Civic Change Leadership Training. For more information on how your community can bring LeadershipPlenty to your area contact South Dakota Rural Enterprise at 605-978-2804.

Sponsors

Sponsors of LeadeshipPlenty Lake Francis Case were:

• The Christiansen Foundation of Kimball (primary sponsor)
• Chamberlain-Oacoma Area Chamber of Commerce/CVB
• Lake Francis Case Development Corporation
• Central Electric Coop
• Chamberlain School District
• First Dakota National Bank
• Eagle Sales Company
• Mid Dakota Medical Center
• Pepsi Bottling of Chamberlain
• SD Hall of Fame
• Wells Fargo Bank
• District III, and SREI