Program
Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program
Community Change Grants aim to benefit disadvantaged communities through projects that reduce pollution, increase community climate resilience, and build community ...Read more
Success Story
Forming a co-op for seeds
Farmers form cooperatives to buy and market products such as milk and grains, so why not band together to form ...Read more
News
Making connections to spark economic development
Jim Cleveland knows what it takes to bring businesses to a community, and he knows how a project can win ...Read more
Success Story
Adding infrastructure spurs development
If there is one thing the Lac Courte Oreilles (LCO) Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe has desperately needed, it is ...Read more
Support Organization
UP THERE, LLC
Health & Mental Health, Parks & Outdoor Recreation
Through interactions with horses, participants can receive insight into how they interact, communicate, and listen to others. Wellness is more ...Read more
Support Organization
Green Pastures Living
Housing
Seeing no one providing affordable independent senior housing in rural communities, Anne Michels created Green Pastures Living to solve this ...Read more
Success Story
The Vernon County Energy District aims for clean, locally generated power
The Vernon County Energy District is spreading the word about energy: how to conserve, how to go green, and most ...Read more
Success Story
Pastoral escapes
Annie Coleman had dreamed for years about opening a retreat center in rural Wisconsin—a place in the heart of nature ...Read more
News
Protected: New UW Extension Program to support innovation in the rural economy
Business, Start-Up & Entrepreneur
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News
Protected: Wisconsin Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure (RFSI) Program
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Success Story
Collaboration helps plug housing shortage in western Wisconsin
Energy, Housing, Sustainability, Workforce
Meeting the goal to build a 50-unit apartment building in downtown River Falls with affordable rents and load it with ...Read more
Success Story
Spring Green, Mazomanie vet clinics switch to cooperative ownership
Business, Start-Up & Entrepreneur
Forming a cooperative ensures local residents will have a veterinarian nearby to care for their dogs, cats, and other animals.
News
Welcoming communities resources
Arts & Culture, Other
Discover resources that demonstrate practical ideas for communities to create an environment that makes new residents feel welcome and included ...Read more
Program
Trafffic Analysis & Design, Inc (TADI)
Transportation
TADI specializes in solving the traffic and safety engineering needs of DOT, municipal and private clients throughout Wisconsin.
Support Organization
Trafffic Analysis & Design, Inc (TADI)
Transportation
TADI specializes in solving the traffic and safety engineering needs of DOT, municipal and private clients throughout Wisconsin.
Success Story
Growing Lancaster aims to attract Latino families
Other, Workforce
To bring Latino families to Lancaster, the community knew it would need to make this cultural group feel welcome and ...Read more
News
Tourism Resources
Tourism
Tourism introduces people to our state from across state lines and across the world. Communities that showcase and invest in ...Read more
News
Health Care Resources
Health & Mental Health
During public forums in 2020, hundreds of rural residents told the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Rural Prosperity that they ...Read more
Program
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Energy, Sustainability
Focus on Energy is Wisconsin’s statewide energy efficiency and renewable resource program funded by the state’s investor-owned energy utilities and ...Read more
News
Education Resources
Education & Schools
When rural schools thrive, so do the towns and regions around them. Read more about the organizations supporting rural education ...Read more
