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Iowa:

Outline of Need:
Project:   Technical Assistance
Amount Awarded:   $150,000
Project Service Area:   Plymouth, Cherokee, Woodbury, Ida and Monona Counties in IA; Dixon, Dakota, and Thurston Counties in NE; Clay and Union Counties in SD

How Rural Development Helped:
Rural Development funds will be used to provide technical assistance in a small community partnership program. The project targets small communities without professional development staff to involve citizens in the planning process.

The Results:
As a result of this project, 120 jobs were created and 30 businesses assisted.

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New Mexico:

Outline of Need:
Tapetes De Lana is in the process of constructing a fiber spinning facility in Mora County, New Mexico.

How Rural Development Helped:
The RBOG funds in the amount of $79,060 will be used for the purpose of providing technical assistance and training from the producers who will provide fiber to the mill to the mill workers who will process the raw material to the weavers that will add value to the raw product and finally to marketing of the completed woven product.

The Results:
As a result of this project, 15 jobs will be created.

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Oklahoma:

Outline of Need:
Plains Grains, Inc. will establish an information center and data base that will be utilized by the wheat industry in Oklahoma. Information will be available to wheat producers, grain operators, millers, and bakers. Plains Grains, Inc. is designed to assist all levels of the wheat supply chain, both domestically and internationally, by providing wheat quality information to industry members.

How Rural Development Helped:
$50,000 was awarded for this project

The Results:
Up to 2,000 jobs could be created as a result of this project.

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South Dakota:

Outline of Need:
The Micro Business Incubator project has met many of our Agency’s objectives in the fact that it has provided the necessary funding to the applicant to help establish and create small and emerging private businesses in a reservation area which has historically been a high poverty and high unemployment area, thereby creating hope and opportunity to the lives of many rural American Indian families and population.

How Rural Development Helped:
$95,000 was awarded for this project in 2004 and $50,000 in 2002

The Results:
Many businesses have been started as a result of this project, and better yet, even more business entrepreneurs have been given training, education, and a culture of self-determination than ever before. Overall, 70 jobs were created and 139 businesses assisted. To learn more about this project visit the following website at www.fourbands.org/services.htm

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Tennessee:

Outline of Need:
Southeast Local Development Corporation
Ocoee Economic Development Partnership
Polk County, TN; Cherokee County, NC; and Fannin County, Georgia

How Rural Development Helped:
Grant funds were used to conduct a study and create a broad based economic development initiative relating to outdoor activities in the Ocoee River Region.

The Results:
There are approximately 10 whitewater rafting outfitters in Polk County, Tennessee at the present time, with numerous other outfitters in North Carolina and Georgia that will benefit.