Volume 2.11: The Center Insider
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Dec
29
Application deadline for Rogers Scholars and ELI is Jan. 31
The Center for Rural Development is looking for some of the best and brightest high school students across Southern and Eastern Kentucky to grow their leadership skills as Rogers Scholars and build their business and entrepreneurial skills while participating in Entrepreneurial Leadership Institute (ELI) program. Applications for the 2011 summer sessions of both Rogers Scholars [...]
Dec
27
The Center will present free workshop for nonprofit board members
If you are thinking about serving or are currently serving on a nonprofit board, learn more about your legal and professional responsibilities as a board member at a Nonprofit Governance Workshop presented by The Center for Rural Development on Jan. 12 in Somerset. Attorney Robert Rich, who focuses on nonprofit governance and counsel in his [...]
Dec
21
Harlan County hits the Web thanks to The Center, ARC mini-grants
Many small, rural Kentucky communities and non-profit organizations have good, creative ideas, but lack financial resources to turn those ideas into reality. That was the situation Tri-Cities Heritage Development Corporation, a Main Street program established to promote the economic revitalization of the cities of Cumberland, Benham, and Lynch in Harlan County, found when the [...]
Dec
16
Pulaski County artist Sue Burkett hosts holiday exhibit at The Center
Everywhere contemporary artist Sue Burkett looks she finds inspiration to paint: the bright red flowers on a Christmas Poinsettia, green tomatoes growing in her garden, or a view from her studio window of Green River Knob in western Pulaski County. Burkett brings all of these things and more to life on canvas in a splash [...]
Dec
13
The Center helps raise $10,464 for Kingsford four
A benefit performance at The Center for Rural Development—combined with monetary contributions from several key contributors—has raised $10,464 to help support the families of four Kingsford Manufacturing Company employees injured in a flash fire earlier this year at the Pulaski County plant. Carl Skaggs, event promoter for Cumberland Productions, announced this week ticket sales [...]
Dec
10
Pike County brothers are honored at EIEA Hometown Event
If you were to ask 2010 Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award (EIEA) winners Shannon and Kendall Wright of Pike County what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur, they would probably say, “Think big.” Thinking big helped the brothers—owners of Wright Concrete and Construction Company based in Dorton, Ky.—grow and greatly expand their business through [...]
Dec
09
Forward in the Fifth and The Center host Summit with First Lady Jane Beshear
SOMERSET, Ky.—Leading regional efforts to tackle the state’s growing number of high school dropouts, Forward in the Fifth and The Center for Rural Development partnered with Kentucky’s First Lady Jane Beshear to host a regional dropout prevention summit on Dec. 9 at The Center aimed at raising public awareness about how to engage and keep [...]
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