The Rural Futures Institute (RFI) at the University of Nebraska is offering scholarships for Nebraska students to attend the 2019 Connecting Entrepreneurial Communities (CEC) conference in Beatrice, NE, April 24-25. Any University of Nebraska student, as well as state and community college or Nebraska high school students are eligible for the scholarship.
Register at https://www.regonline.com/registration/Checkin.aspx?EventID=2556556&.
Connecting Entrepreneurial Communities is a premier conference for those interested in building entrepreneurial communities throughout Nebraska and beyond. The conference is coordinated by the Community Vitality Initiative team, part of Nebraska Extension at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Thirty break-out sessions across six tracks will be held in downtown Beatrice venues – all within walking distance. The tracks include:
• Creating a Vibrant Downtown
• Placemaking
• Diversifying the Economy
• Collaborative Development
• Community Investment and Civic Engagement
• Groundwork for Change
Conference speakers include:
• Dell Gines, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City senior community development advisor
• David Weaver, Orton Family Foundation director of communications
• And numerous breakout session speakers!
The application is open today and will close April 20, 2019.
Conference Details
April 24 and April 25, 2019 | 10:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. CST
Vintage Venue
620 Court St., Beatrice, NE 68310
Extended details available at Connecting Entrepreneurial Communities (https://communityvitality.unl.edu/connecting-entrepreneurial-communities).
The RFI scholarships will cover the entire registration cost for students to register and attend the conference.
“We are excited to support Nebraska students who want to learn about entrepreneurial communities and help create them,” said Connie Reimers-Hild, RFI interim executive director. “When approached about recruiting rural community leaders to attend, we jumped at the chance to partner and provide the opportunity to sponsor students to attend. Our RFI student scholarship awardees will certainly learn, but they will also bring extremely valuable and important perspectives to the presenters and other attendees.”