Annual Institutes Draw Participants to Jackson Hole, Wyoming

The Heartland Center's two spring training institutes educated many participants in Jackson Hole, Wyoming this year. First held in 1997 with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Skill-Building for Stronger Communities is an advanced program for community leaders and community developers, focusing attention on cases that participants bring from their work back home.

Helping Small Towns Succeed has been held each fall since 1992. It was developed with W.K. Kellogg Foundation support and is designed as a basic or introductory course in community development for professionals or practitioners newer to the profession.

A new institute, Strengthening the Rural-Urban Connection, was offered this year for the first time. The institute focused on issues found in common in rural and urban communities and strategies to strengthen rural-urban connections. It was developed with support from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.

Skill-Building for Stronger Communities is scheduled for May 14-17, 2003. Strengthening the Rural-Urban Connection will be held May 19-20, 2003 and Helping Small Towns Succeed will be offered October 23-27, 2003. All three are held at Snow King Resort in the town of Jackson, Wyoming.

For more information on these programs
go to our web page:
www.heartlandcenter.info/jhsite/jh_home.html.