2007 Action Recommendations

2007 Action Recommendations

Entrepreneurship

Ø Offer additional assistance to those businesses that have been identified as growth entrepreneurs.
Ø Identify and conduct interviews with businesses that are potential transfers within the next ten years and begin identify potential entrepreneurs that would transition into these existing businesses and possibly expand.
Ø Offer an EDGE class beginning in the fall of 2006.
Ø Enhance networking of resource providers in region to support local development goals.
Ø Provide technical assistance to new start-ups and expanding businesses.
Ø Work with youth task force to support young entrepreneurs interested in starting new businesses or buying existing businesses.



Charitable Assets

Ø Have PCCF raise their first $75,000 and reach their first goal of the Hunt Challenge by March 2007.
Ø Have both ICF and PCCF raise the remaining $75,000 in the next two years to then have over $200,000 in their unrestricted endowment fund.
Ø Have both ICF and PCCF continue to grow their foundations by promoting charitable giving within both counties.
Ø Encourage the fund advisory committee for both ICF and PCCF to attend NCF trainings.

Leadership

Ø Hold the second regional leadership development class beginning in the fall of 2006.
Ø Send a second team of volunteers to the HTC Academy in Lincoln in January 2007.
Ø Encourage more youth leadership involvement in city councils, county commissioners meetings, school board meetings, etc.
Ø Support young adults moving into leadership roles in community.
Ø Establish the LB 840 program in Imperial. (passed at election)
Ø Better utilize the large group of highly educated women in the area.


Youth

Ø Continue to offer e-ship classes in both high schools.
Ø Offer e-ship classes in both middle schools.
Ø Provide one day per semester highlighting e-ship for grade school students.
Ø Recruit youth and young adults into leadership class.
Ø Recognize young adults who have moved into both communities in the past year and work toward getting them engaged in the HTC program.
Ø Introduce the 4-H E-ship program if a champion can be identified.