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Enhancing Community Capacity for Economic Development: Recommendations and Follow-Up

The University of Idaho Extension Community Development program focuses on improving rural communities through targeted actions and community reviews. This initiative involves the creation of design plans for outdoor public spaces, farmers' markets, and community gardens to boost local economies. Key strategies include workshops on artisan entrepreneurship, asset development, and cooperative marketing. The program's goal is to cultivate human and social capital, ensuring communities have the capacity to implement sustainable economic initiatives and cultural industries in rural regions.

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Enhancing Community Capacity for Economic Development: Recommendations and Follow-Up

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  1. Community Review Follow-Up Building capacity to implement recommendations Lorie Higgins, Willem Braak,KatheeTifft & Shanna Hamilton

  2. University of Idaho Extension Community Development • Rural Business & Entrepreneurship • Entrepreneur Training • Open for Business • Marketing • Customer Relations • Consumer Surveys • E-Commerce • Cultural Industries • Two Degrees NW: Where Art Meets the Land • Spaces & Places • Farmers Markets • Community Design • Rapid Response Design Team • Community Gardens • Human & Social Capital • Workforce • Living Wage Project • Leadership • Training / Community Reviews • Center for Comm. Buildingto End Poverty • Data Tools • Indicators • Community Driven Economic Development ~ 20 faculty ~ 6 FTE

  3. Rapid Response Design Team Steve Drown, UI Extension Education Specialist in Bioregional Planning and Landscape Architecture in the College of Agriculture and Life Science, srdrown@uidaho.edu UI Extension Faculty & Funding + Landscape Architecture + Bioregional Planning & Community Design Grad Students Follow-up in Horizons Communities Design plans for outdoor public spaces, community beautification, and the design or retrofitting of space for public gardens and farmers markets

  4. Create plans in a timely manner so that communities can proceed with efforts to fund and implement projects -> private sector takes over from there Albion: Main St. Master Plan and Regional Trail System Shoshone: 5 Yr Master Plan for Lincoln County Fairgrounds Heyburn: Landscape Design for 211 Interchange on I84 Eden/Hazelton: Master Plan for Wilson Reservoir Park Menan: Exercise Trail for Midway Elementary, Park Plan for Main St., and Landscape & Parking Plan for Historic Town Hall Roberts: Walking Trail and Park for Community Center Ririe: Master Plan for Ririe Memorial Park

  5. Two Degrees Northwest Goal: Develop cultural industries in rural regions Pilot region: 9 counties in NC Idaho and SE Washington ($2.1 economic multiplier) Focus: Culinary, Arts, Heritage, Scenic/Recreational Strategies: Asset Ident., Asset Development & Cooperative Mktg. • Business of Art Wrkshps • Framing for Galleries* • Photographing Art • Packaging Images for Juries • E-Commerce • Social Media • Packaging & Labeling • Booth Design • Sales / Customer Service • Going Wholesale • Product Development (*local training capacity)

  6. Artisan Trails Coming soon: Website w/interactive guide, downloadable version, featured sites and itineraries, loop trails, mobile version of site and an App! Cost: $25,000 - $30,000 total ($15K cash) Partners: Idaho Commission on the Arts, City of Moscow, Kamiah Chamber, Moscow Food Co-op, Idaho Horizons, Clearwater Resource Conservation & Development Council

  7. New Meadows Community Review Follow-Up Began October 2011 6 workshops so far 4 Extension faculty 4 Action Teams 20 – 25 core team members Steering Committee Initial Projects – Quick Successes

  8. Workshops Futures Game Getting the Right People to the Table Attributes of Successful Communities & Asset Mapping Community Vision & Action Teams Steering Committee, Ground Rules & Identify Potential Projects S.M.A.R.T Goals

  9. Attributes of Successful Communities

  10. Created a Toolbox Using the Community Capitals Framework • Social • Cultural • Human • Political • Financial • Built • Natural Assets Mapped and Categorized

  11. Asset Map Detail

  12. From Assets to Vision…..

  13. …to Action Teams…to Action

  14. Just in Time Training Leadership training will be incorporated into work sessions for the teams: 30 minutes at the beginning of a two hour session every month. Teams meet between monthly meetings. Valley and Adams County Extension Educators will continue to facilitate & coach and coordinate training sessions.

  15. Discussion

  16. More Info and Contacts • Next Steps in the Meadows Valley • Willem Braak: wbraak@uidaho.edu • Shanna Hamilton: shannas@uidaho.edu • Mac Qualls: macqualls@gmail.com • http://www.longvalleyblog.org/meadows-valley/ • http://www.newmeadowsidaho.org • U of I Extension Community Development • www.extension.uidaho.edu/communitydevelopment/ (coming soon!) • Two Degrees Northwest’s site featuring Artisan Trails • www.2dnw.org (revamp in progress) • Lorie Higgins: higgins@uidaho.edu 208.885.9717 / 208.669.1480 • http://www.cals.uidaho.edu/aers/ (Also RIP!)

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