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Category: Rural Capacity Building

Community, in first, second and third place

By Blandin Foundation

Rural aficionado Michael Knutson’s tweets yesterday mentioned “third places” – a term, we discovered, used in community planning to identify a community’s social gathering places, like pubs, diners and coffeehouses. People also have “first places” (home) and “second places” (work) in communities. Together, these three types of place give communities, rural communities included, their sense …

Congratulations, Stevens County!

By Blandin Foundation

Stevens County is home to 22 freshly trained, energized leaders.  The most recent cohort of Blandin Community Leadership Program , the residents from Hancock and Morris, Minn., spent the last full week in February focused on their community’s shared assets and honing their leadership skills.   They will finish up with workshops in May and July. More …