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Bolt Enterprises

June 29, 2012 By admin

Young Entrepreneurs Business Opportunities through Learning and Technology (BOLT) Enterprises, a student-run business, provides a unique educational opportunity for young entrepreneurs attending Westbrook-Walnut Grove High School in Westbrook, Minnesota. BOLT Enterprises gives students the experience of running a real business, provides jobs, and manufactures a dynamite barbecue sauce, all on the high school campus. Students […]

Filed Under: Business - small (<20 employees), Children, Families and Learning, Consumption and Purchasing, Developing new products, Direct to customer/user, Food related, Minnesota, New products or Services (ag and non-ag- based), Packaging, Processing, Program - non-profit, Responsible Purchasing, Support Students, Value added, Youth, Youth, Youth Businesses, Youth Leadership, Youth Workers

Seeding a Community with Confidence

June 29, 2012 By admin

Seeding a Community with Confidence Walking the streets of Omak, your eyes lift to sunny sage-covered hills in every direction. The sun rises and sets quickly in Omak, nestled in the Okanogan River Valley. Townspeople identify with this valley north to Canada and south to the Columbia. Omak serves this valley as well, offering its […]

Filed Under: Children, Families and Learning, Community Development and Design, Promoting Community Interaction on Common Goals, Public Schools, Reservation, Schooling, Service Learning, Youth, Youth Leadership

Investing in Cross-Cultural Leadership

June 29, 2012 By admin

Investing in Cross-Cultural Leadership Welcome to Bridgeport, a sage-scented town of 2,200 in north central Washington’s apple and cherry country. Tucked in a crook of the Columbia River, Bridgeport is just a mile west of the Chief Joseph Dam. Bridgeport leaders are full of new ideas why their school enrollment has risen every month in […]

Filed Under: Aquatic Center, Children, Families and Learning, Community Development and Design, Family Entertainment and Activities, Lifelong Learning, Northwest Area Foundation Horizons Project, Program - community, Public Schools, Schooling, Washington, Youth, Youth Leadership

A Pearl in the Making

June 29, 2012 By admin

A Pearl in the Making In Tonasket, Washington, a beautiful river valley town just 23 miles from the Canadian border, leaders are “thinking locally first.” This concept of economic development — keeping residents’ dollars circulating locally — was awakened when the town nearly lost their hardware store. “Our hardware store was destroyed in a fire,” […]

Filed Under: Children, Families and Learning, Community Development and Design, Developing Models of Partnership, Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Northwest Area Foundation Horizons Project, Program - community, Promoting Community Interaction on Common Goals, Public Schools, Schooling, Washington, Youth, Youth Leadership

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