Focal Initiatives Workshop Yields Recommendations

More than two-dozen rural community practitioners, academics, natural resources professionals and others accepted the U.S. Endowment’s invitation to convene for a two-day workshop to offer guidance as part of the Endowment’s focal initiatives review. The Greenville-based event was facilitated by Barbara Wyckoff and attended by all Endowment staff as well as four members of the Board of Directors who participated as “listeners.” The content of the workshop was framed by results from a pre-workshop survey of participants. Additionally, attendees reviewed and considered the nearly 600 responses received from a broadly distributed on-line survey. A complete workshop report will be published and made available via the web before year-end.