2020 is a year of change, upheaval, devastation, transformation and innovation. The tsunami-like impact of a global pandemic has delivered a changed economy. In rural areas, community members have the unique opportunity to contribute to the rebuilding process and a new future for their town or small city. Entrepreneurship track leader Kate Kirchhofer, program director Read more…
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2020 Radically Rural – Remote summit: Land and community sessions explore balance of use and conservation
For rural areas and the people who inhabit these spaces, the economy and the environment are inextricably intertwined. The question of balance between exploitation and conservation arises and gaps are made apparent among support and protection of land, business and people. For this year’s Radically Rural – Remote summit, the Land and Community Track will Read more…
2020 Radically Rural – Remote Summit: Local journalism seeks sustainability through innovation
This current time of crisis and virus has created a signature moment in history for the local news industry. Journalists are covering unchartered political, economic and societal waters, and, more than ever, trusted, accurate information is needed in local communities, a growing number of which no longer have local news organizations serving them. Financial challenges, Read more…
Adapting to COVID-19 crisis, Radically Rural 2020 goes remote
By Sentinel Staff The struggles facing communities dealing with the impact of COVID-19 on personal lives, jobs and businesses are well documented. With this in mind, the organizers of Radically Rural, the summit that showcases ideas of importance to small cities and towns, will stage its event this year on one day and exclusively online. Read more…
10 News Publishers That Do It Right 2020
The Keene Sentinel, one of the organizing partners of Radically Rural, was featured in Editor&Publisher’s 2020 list of “10 News Publishers That Do It Right” by Nu Yang and Evelyn Mateos. Read the Keene Sentinel’s feature below: The full article can be found here. Keene Sentinel Keene, N.H. Since 2018, the Keene Sentinel, along with Read more…
Press Release – C&S Sponsorship 2020
C&S Wholesale Grocers Becomes a Lead Sponsor of the Radically Rural Summit Keene, NH – C&S Wholesale Grocers contributed $10,000 to become a Lead Sponsor of Radically Rural, a two-day national summit aimed at creating and sharing ideas and solutions surrounding the challenges and opportunities of rural living, as well as celebrating the advantages. In Read more…
Radically Rural 2019 Arts & Culture Track Summary by Arts Alive!
Submitted and Written by Jessica Gelter, Executive Director of Arts Alive! and Track Organizer of Radically Rural Arts & Culture Track. Session 1: Notes on the Magical History Tour Session 2: Notes on the Clemmons Family Farm Session 3: Notes on Burning Man Mini-mixers: Reflections
Commentary: The Birth of a Rural Summit
Radically Rural, a two-day focus on rural challenges and opportunity that’s staged in Keene, New Hampshire, in its second year drew over 600 people from 24 states to talk about such things as getting more charging stations for electric cars, how to find financing for farms that are too small for consolidated banks, and how Read more…
Inside ‘Radically Rural’, the New Hampshire Conference Championing Local Entrepreneurs
Forget freezing-cold convention centers with high glass walls and unreasonably priced food. Attendees of Radically Rural, a two-day, multi-track conference that kicked off Thursday morning, will go to sessions in Keene, New Hampshire’s Old Cheshire County Courthouse, Colonial Theatre and the public library, among other locales. A partnership between the Keene Sentinel and the Hannah Read more…
A ‘Radically Rural’ approach to sustaining communities
Summit in Keene will look at solutions to problems, issues facing small cities, towns September 12, 2019 Mary Ann Kristiansen Rural Americans are confident that major problems facing their local communities can be solved in five years, but most think they cannot be fixed without outside help. So says the 2018 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Read more…
Hannah Grimes Center for Entrepreneurship Sponsors
