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Osage Valley hosts 5th Monday in Butler
Join us July 29 at the historic Pennell Hotel in downtown Butler! It’s the next 5th Monday community economic development luncheon, hosted by West Central Missouri Community Action Agency and regional community development corporation New Growth. Participants...
Free marketing for local businesses!
A new project to help Google find rural businesses and communities is gaining steam in west central Missouri. The Making Rural Visible project starts in Cedar and St. Clair counties with free listings on the LocalAnyDay platform. Sign up is easy and ongoing. Just call...
Region gets organized to build entrepreneurs
Five regional organizations announced April 29, at west central Missouri’s “5th Monday” community economic development luncheon, that they have joined forces to grow the region’s economy by strengthening support to rural entrepreneurs. Start Here is a new, regional,...
Making Osceola work well for everyone
Healthy, thriving places grow where people find it easy and enjoyable to live, work, and play. That is the need and opportunity at the core of Osceola’s Healthy Places for Healthy People (HP2) plan. Implementation is getting underway with projects including an Osceola...
New farmers, new markets for west central Missouri
Insights from more experienced entrepreneurs — people who have been through it! — can be some of the best help for beginning businesses. A new project to help area farmers get into larger-scale wholesale markets for fruits and vegetables provides that...
Regional grant kicks off El Dorado Works! project
West Central Missouri Community Action Agency and its New Growth community development corporation are recipients of a $20,000 Coover Regional Grant from the Community Foundation of the Ozarks in partnership with Commerce Trust Company. Funding will kick off the...
Local economy project will help Google find rural
St. Clair and Cedar counties take action with LocalAnyDay mobile marketing platform If you want to buy local, you first have to find local. But finding local is especially difficult in the smartphone era. Most rural businesses do not have the marketing power to show...
Entrepreneurship is focus of 5th Monday luncheon
April 29 event will launch regional business acceleration network. The next “5th Monday” community economic development networking luncheon takes place April 29 in historic downtown Clinton. Hosts West Central Missouri Community Action Agency and its community...
Farm to Fork Summit stirs appetite for local food
These are the wise words spoken Tuesday, January 15 by one Osceola High School student at west central Missouri’s first Farm to Fork Summit. The Future Farmers of America (FFA) member was one of 102 farmers, consumers, health professionals, educators, civic leaders, and more who attended the event, filling the gym at Osceola’s Assembly of God Church.
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