During the time of receiving USDA grants for Deuel Area Development, these Power Points were shared to give people an idea of what our non-profit has been doing in our county.
7. Where We’ve Been
2007 -2008
Community Assessment
Legal Entity
NESDEC Grant for E-ship
Executive Director Hired
for DADi
Rural Business
Enterprise Grant Award
from the USDA
Organizational Branding
Gary Office
Established
Former Director Resigns –
new director hired August
2011.
First RBEG finished, RBEG-
2 Awarded til August 2013
2007-2008
2009-2010
2011
8. RBEG-1
Rural Business Enterprise Grant
October 2010 - January 2012
Details: RLC applicant, RUPRI consultants
Program Components:
1. E Coaching
2. E Training
Workshops
Technical Assistance
B2B Networking Events
3. Sustainability
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9. “What’s Worked?”
Entrepreneurship development has shown great
promise in Deuel County. We’d like to further refine
the things that are working well and become even
more effective in delivering these resources.
E Coaching
Area Resource Team A team of area profession
External Resource Network resources
Workshops
Ag Marketing workshop series
New & Existing workshop series
Technical assistance
17. RBEG-2
Rural Business Enterprise Grant
February 2012 – August 2013
Program Components:
Community Awareness
Workshops
Website
Business Development, Expansion, Retention
Workshops
Working with our business owner
ART & ERN (Area Team and External)
Business Resource Center
Kitchen Incubator
Sustainability – Maintain and help to make DADi self-
sustaining. Continued growth…
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18. Area Resource Team
Original Intent – RBEG Grants
Local AREA Professionals in place to help the
Entrepreneur and business owners.
In-kind contributions
Time given is applied to our RBEG Grants
A great resource for all businesses – Start ups,
Transitional and Retention.
19. 1) Community
Awareness
2) Entrepreneur
Programs &
Resources
3) Incubators 4) Sustainablity
Deuel Area
Development
RBEG-2 Goals
Targeting entrepreneurs.
Business Assistance
Target Youth and Returnees
Fundraising will never end.
Considering Field of
Interest Fund in time.
Signage – Newspaper article bi-monthly
– Website Development – Promotional
Materials – Farm/Home Shows –
Community Projects (Dance, Workshops,
Recreation Trai, Daktronic signboardl)
Business Resource Center
Kitchen Incubator
21. Dance Classes were offered. We had 10 couples take the classes
and we held a monthly public Dance at the Gary Legion Hall during
February, March and April! Attendance came close to 78 people!!
GOTTA DANCE Deuel
22. Why Should
Q: Why Should I Attend?
A: To gain the following skills…
BASIC to INTERMEDIATE: After a brief
review covering the basics of
navigating, formatting and simple
formulas...you will learn to use more
of Excel's powerful features including
more formatting options, conditional
formatting, function wizard, formula
auditing, 3 dimensional formulas,
charts and more.
You will need to Pre-Register!
When: Thursday, May 10th from 9:30 am to 4:00
pm.
Where: AgriPartners, Inc – Clear Lake, SD
Cost: $35.00 per person
Instructor: Mary Matthies, DNB National Bank
Registration: Contact Deuel Area Development to
register by May 6th at dadi@itctel.com or 874-8038.
What to bring: A laptop with Microsoft Excel 2007 or
2010. Contact us if you need one for training.
Be
“Deuel Area Development is
an equal opportunity
provider, and employer.”
23. Community Book Read
Sponsored by SDSU Extension
Based on the Book:
Hollowing Out the Middle –
“The Rural Brain Drain and
What it Means for America”
• Achievers
• Stayers
• Seekers
• Returners
How do we help those staying?
How do we help those
returning?
What can we do as a community
and our future leaders?
26. Deuel Area Development
Website!!
Several Features of the Website.
County awareness
Collaborative communities working together
Community awareness
Tools For Business – a fantastic resource available to
our area businesses.
29. Kitchen Incubator
• Part of the RBEG-2 Goal #3
• A licensed commercial
kitchen
• Need to be ServSafe certified
• Used to make processed
foods or for resale.
• SD law requires processed
fruits and vegetables be
regulated.
• In beginning stages of
working with SDSU Extention
30. What is a Kitchen
Incubator??
Incubators make financially possible
for a start-up food manufacturer to
take advantage of available
professional kitchen space while they
grow their business.
Most Start-up food enterprises begin
in a home kitchen. Once the final
recipe is ready for the marketplace,
the home kitchen is a liability. New
business owners cannot obtain the
necessary licensing from the state or
product liability insurance for the
manufacture and sale of a product
made in a home kitchen. Legally they
must now manufacture their product
from a professional kitchen.
“Trying to take all these
passionate food people out of
their home kitchens and allow
them create their own
business in a legal space. “
Renting space for the
entrepreneur is too cost
prohibitive. Prices can be
charged per shift basis.
31. Where Do We Go From
Here?
Open ears, eyes & mind for new ideas
Committees – Volunteers
Needs and wants of the community – quality of life.
Future
Funding
Collaboration between Corporations
WORKING TOGETHER to make things
Happen for Deuel!
32. Challenges…
These are the challenges we have encountered.
Program elements
E Workshops
Getting people to come
High quality expectation, creating an experience that encourages
them to come back
Finding instructors (expertise, engaging style and content)
Reoccurring questions
People have ideas, but need help processing whether it’s a good
idea (Feasibility study resources)
Expected challenges
How to improve promotion / marketing?
Coordination logistics / phone calls, etc
How do we find entrepreneurs and get them to engage?
33. We Need Your Help
Financially
Ideas
Suggestions
Working together for the good of
our communities!
GROW DEUEL!!
Notes de l'éditeur
Before Lunch – Where we’ve been
After Lunch – Where we want to go
Before Lunch – Where we’ve been
After Lunch – Where we want to go
B2B networks – fruit of a fully functioning, mature system?
E Workshops – generalize - real challenge – if we can get people there. They need a experience that will encourage them to come back. to get people come: ingredients that contribute to a successful event, this is a real challenge unless you are able to pay big bucks – how do we work with people here to get people that can get people engaged. People used to high quality video productions, workshops take you back in time. Finding instructors (expertise, energy, affordability, proximity – engaging style and content approach) – some are more skilled than others.
Common questions / challenges – access to Business Feasibility study resources, reoccurring themes – they have ideas but need help processing the whether it is a good idea, new markets or new businesses
Other expected challenges
How to improve promotion / marketing?
Coordination logistics / phone calls, etc
How do we get entrepreneurs to engage?? One-on-one touch to get people to show up for stuff. How do I be more effective at that?
We are working on promising approaching but refining what’s working and not working. TONE – problem solving. Lifes hard but we’re trying to figure it out.