Leon Tongret and Greta Lint discuss how buying locally helps small towns.
Archive for July, 2008
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July 29, 2008NC Tourism matching grants
July 18, 2008From the North Carolina Division of Tourism, Film and Sports Development…
DIVISION NOW ACCEPTING MATCHING FUNDS GRANTS APPLICATIONS
The Division of Tourism, Film and Sports Development is accepting applications for the Tourism Matching Grants program until 5 p.m. on August 22. An important part of the state’s marketing efforts, the matching funds program assists local communities and non-profit tourism organizations with local and regional tourism marketing and development projects. For guidelines, detailed information on the matching funds program and to download an application, visit http://www.nccommerce.com/en/TourismServices/PromoteTravelAndTourismIndustry/GrantProgramsAndResources
Buy local-online seminar scheduled
July 17, 2008
Photo by Keith Pomakis
This conference call is free and open to the public. Please share your thoughts about buy-local campaigns. Hear from experts. Ask questions. Smallwander.com offers free seminars about small town tourism and economic development. Calls are held on the last Monday of every month at 10 am. The seminars are later posted as podcasts.
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EVENT: Buy local
DATE & TIME: Monday, July 28th at 10:00am Eastern
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Dear subscribers
July 10, 2008I am quite possibly going to port this blog of to a self-hosted server some time soon. The likey URL will be www.smallwander.com/smalltowns. You’ll be able to find it by going through the smallwander.com site. So, be ready if the RSS feed dries up!
California encourages walkable cities
July 10, 2008
From Worldatlas.com
…as part of a plan to reduce emissions by 2020. Originally posted by http://walkable.wordpress.com/.
More about big companies in small towns
July 2, 2008From Blogging Stocks…
Big company, small town: Corning Inc., Corning, New York
This post is part of our Big Company, Small Town series, featuring large companies and the small towns in which they are headquartered.
Rest assured, the first decade of the 21st century is not likely to be remembered as a renaissance period in U.S. history. No one will confuse this decade with the Roaring ’20s or even the Wonderful ’90s.
Further, if the nation needs an example of rebirth and renewal — it would be hard to find a better one than the story of multinational corporation Corning (NYSE: GLW), nestled in the small town of Corning, New York.
Corning is your classic, feel-good American success story. And doesn’t the United States need a few of those today?
Moreover, Corning, arguably, represents one of the signature corporate transformation stories of the digital age.
