Hometown Competitiveness Academy at CSC this week
At least 50 participants are expected for the Hometown Competitiveness Academy to be hosted by Chadron State this coming week. The sessions will be in the Student Center, beginning at noon on Tuesday, Sept. 12 and running through Thursday noon. The academy is being sponsored by Chadron State, the Center for Rural Entrepreneurship, the Heartland Center for Leadership Development and the Nebraska Community Foundation.
The participants are coming from Chadron, Crawford, Callaway, Morrill, Sidney and Schickley in Nebraska as well as Colorado Springs, Campo, Colo., Greenwood Village, Colo., Atwood, Kan., and Texas and New Mexico.
HTC’s goals include mobilizing local leaders, energizing entrepreneurship, attracting and engaging young people and encouraging senior citizens to remember entities in their hometown when they make estate plans.
Presenters will include Milan Wall, co-director of the Heartland Center; Jana Jensen of Bingham, an assistant development director for the Nebraska Community Foundation; Darryl Birkenfeld of Nazareth, Texas, who has organized HTC programs in the Texas Panhandle and northeastern Colorado-southwestern Nebraska; and two Chadron State business professors, Dr. Tim Donahue and Dr. Augie Bruehlman.
The times major topics will be discussed are:
Leadership—2 p.m. Tuesday by Birkenfeld and Bruehlman; charitable assets—8 a.m. Wednesday by Jensen, entrepreneurship—1 p.m. Wednesday by Donahue and youth engagement—8 a.m. Thursday by Wall.
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