- 2009 Cornell Municipal Clerks Institute
- Land Use Policy Briefs
- CaRDI Publications
- The Economic Significance of the Not-for-Profit Sector
- A Case Study of Ethanol Development in NYS
- Community Response to Immigrants in New Destinations
- Using the American Community Survey (ACS) for Rural or Small Area Research and Policy
- Rightsizing New York's Budget: Why and How It Can Be Done
- National e-Commerce Extension Initiative
- Marcellus Shale Webinar
- 2009 NYSAC Legislative Conference
- Association of Towns of New York State, Training School and Annual Meeting
- Building Energy09
- 4th Annual Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration
- Civic Entrepreneurs Prove to be Community Leaders of 21st Century
- Measures and Methods: Four Tenets for Rural Economic Development in the New Economy
- Federal Rural Development Policy in the Twentieth Century
- United States Department of Agriculture - Economic Research Service
- National e-Commerce Extension Initiative Enews
- The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation 2008 State New Economy Index Released
- Counting Caring: Attending to the Human in an Age of Public Management
- Consumer Survey re: Shopping and Eating Habits
- Food and the Mid-Level Farm: Renewing an Agriculture of the Middle
- New Tool Estimates Markets for 204 Food Products Nationwide
- Iowa Food Cooperative: A New Web-based Ordering System
Funding / Grants / Other Opportunities
- Funding Available for Extension Educators to Implement e-Commerce Strategies
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Cornell Municipal Clerks Institute: July 19 - 23, 2009
The Cornell Municipal Clerks Institute is a premium educational opportunity provided by a partnership between the City and Village Clerks and the Town Clerks Associations of the State of New York and Cornell University's Community and Rural Development Institute (CaRDI). We invite you to participate. You will gain new knowledge, skills, enhance the administration of your office, and contribute to the professionalism of your municipal government.
More information and a brochure can be found by clicking here.
Land Use Policy Briefs
In September 2008, four new Policy Briefs related to land use were released by the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development. Brief 1, by Dr. JunJie Wu, documents major land use changes in the U.S. and discusses the economic, social and environmental impacts of that change, as well as related policy options. Brief 2, by Dr. Madhu Khanna, discusses the potential for carbon sequestration in soils and forests through changing farm and forest land management practices. Dr. Joshua Duke, in Brief 3, addresses the importance of the proper valuation of a broad range of farmland amenities, or benefits, in designing land preservation policies. Dr. Lori Lynch, finally, discusses the challenges and opportunities that have arisen with the increasing urbanization of formerly agricultural land, and focuses on the strengths and weaknesses of farmland preservation techniques. The Briefs, first presented at a Transatlantic Land Use Conference, are available online at: http://www.nercrd.psu.edu/TALUC/PolicyBriefs.html
CaRDI Publications
In early November, Issue #23 of our Rural New York Minute series was released, entitled "The Economic Significance of the Not-for-Profit Sector", by David L. Kay, Cornell University.
This month we published our 24th issue of the Minute, entitled "Local Politics and Market Forces: A Case Study of Ethanol Development in NYS", by Djahane Salehabadi and Max J. Pfeffer, Cornell University.
In mid-November, Issue #23 of our Research & Policy Brief Series was released, entitled entitled "Community Response to Immigrants in New Destinations", by Max J. Pfeffer and Pilar A. Parra, Cornell University.
We will release our 24th issue of the Brief in mid-December, entitled "Using the American Community Survey (ACS) for Rural or Small Area Research and Policy", by Richard Rathge, Karen Olson, and Ramona Danielson, North Dakota State University.
All of our publications are available on the CaRDI website at http://www.cardi.cornell.edu
Rightsizing New York's Budget: Why and How It Can Be Done
December 9
Albany, NY
This conference is co-sponsored by the Empire Center for New York Sate Policy and the Center for Governmental Research (CGR). To learn more about the conference and how to RSVP, http://www.cgr.org/docs/12-09-08_conference.pdf
National e-Commerce Extension Initiative
Strengthening Competitive Advantage of Rural Businesses with e-Commerce and Experience Economy Strategies
December 16, 2008, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. CST.
To sign up for the Webinar and view the archived Webinars visit http://srdc.msstate.edu/ecommerce.
Marcellus Shale Webinar
(via adobe connect)
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 - 1:00 PM
This will be primarily targeted to CCE Educators. CCE's gas leasing website: http://gasleasing.cce.cornell.edu/
2009 NYSAC Legislative Conference
The 2009 Legislative Conference is scheduled for February 9-11, 2009 in Albany at the Desmond Hotel and Conference Center.
Association of Towns of New York State, Training School and Annual Meeting
February 15-18, 2009
Building Energy09
March 10-12, 2009
Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, MA
Sponsored by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association, Building Energy09 brings together professionals and decision-makers who shape the practice of sustainability. Nearly 200 of the country's best presenters will define the leading edge of smart building, energy efficiency and renewable energy.
For more information, visit: www.buildingenergy.nesea.org
4th Annual Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration
April 16-17, 2009
Cornell University
http://www.eship.cornell.edu/events/celebration09/
Civic Entrepreneurs Prove to be Community Leaders of 21st Century
(from the Center for Rural Affairs)
Civic entrepreneurs are community leaders for the 21st Century. As the word "entrepreneur" suggests, civic entrepreneurs also have a vision and see possibilities where others may not. They tend to be optimistic and hopeful and find reasons why things can happen rather than reasons why they cannot. Persistence is a key personality trait. http://www.cfra.org/node/1527
Measures and Methods: Four Tenets for Rural Economic Development in the New Economy
Rural communities working to find strategies for success in today's economy need to rethink the tools they are using, notes Anita Brown-Graham and William Lambe in a new brief from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, Measures and Methods: Four Tenets for Rural Economic Development in the New Economy. Brown-Graham is the executive director of the Institute for Emerging Issues and a policy fellow at the Carsey Institute. William Lambe is the associate director at the Community and Economic Development Program at the School of Government, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://carseyinstitute.unh.edu/publications/PB-Brown-Graham-Measures08.pdf
Federal Rural Development Policy in the Twentieth Century
(from National Ag Library, Rural Information Center)
http://www.nal.usda.gov/ric/ricpubs/rural_development_policy.html
United States Department of Agriculture - Economic Research Service
Dennis Roth, Anne B. W. Effland, Douglas E. Bowers
A great overview and resources for those exploring energy and energy alternatives – from the Western Rural Development Center. Some articles reflect a western perspective but most are applicable nationally and include national data. http://wrdc.usu.edu/htm/newsletters
National e-Commerce Extension Initiative Enews
The National e-Commerce Extension Initiative announces Enews for December 2008. For the latest news in e-commerce go to: http://srdc.msstate.edu/ecommerce/enews/dec08.html
New Report Discusses Current Characteristics of Rural America
Rural America at a Glance, 2008 Edition highlights the most recent indicators of social and economic conditions in rural areas for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural areas. The 2008 edition focuses on employment, poverty, population change, and demographic characteristics of nonmetro areas. Read the full report at http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/EIB40/.
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation 2008 State New Economy Index Released
The State New Economy Index measures the degree to which the structure of state economies match the ideal structure of the New Economy. The Index builds on the 1999, 2002 and 2007 reports, using 29 indicators to rank each state on the extent to which its economy is structured and operates to effectively compete nationally and globally. It divides the indicators into five categories that best capture what is new about the New Economy: knowledge jobs, globalization, economic dynamism, transformation to a digital economy and technological innovation capacity.
With the economic indicators as a reference, the Index also outlines a detailed and innovative public policy framework of “best practices” that state officials can use as a guide to transform their economies and ensure rising standards of living for their residents.
http://www.itif.org/files/2008_State_New_Economy_Index.pdf
Counting Caring: Attending to the Human in an Age of Public Management
by Margo Hittleman, Cornell Cooperative Extension
http://devsoc.cals.cornell.edu/cals/devsoc/outreach/cardi/publications/upload/counting-caring.pdf
"Community-based organizations face ever-increasing demands to improve performance, increase accountability and document impact – and to do so in specific ways. Most administrators and staff want to improve their work and demonstrate responsible stewardship of community funds and community trust. They want to show that their efforts are “efficient” and “costeffective.” At the same time, many find that important parts of their work – work often described as “relational,” “caring,” or “developmental” – isn’t easy to account for in the expected ways. And they want to help their funders and the public better understand the full nature, value and impact of the work that they do." Counting Caring: Attending to the Human in an Age of Public Management, by Margo Hittleman, Cornell Cooperative Extension, frames these two competing community development paradigms and argues that community service organizations would benefit from becoming "multi-lingual - better able to talk about and account for their work through multiple frames."
Consumer Survey re: Shopping and Eating Habits
The latest nationwide survey conducted for the Leopold Center shows how rising fuel and food costs, coupled with increased concerns about environmental impacts and safety of the food supply, are changing perceptions of American consumers. The survey showed that consumers are re-assessing their shopping and eating habits to cut fuel use, would consider carbon food labels as long as their costs do not increase and were likely to view local food as having traveled 100 miles or less from farm to point of sale. Read the paper at: http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/pubs/staff/consumer2/report.html
Food and the Mid-Level Farm: Renewing an Agriculture of the Middle
The Agriculture of the Middle (AOTM) project has generated this new book published by MIT Press, edited by Thomas Lyson, Steve Stevenson and Rick Welsh. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11523
New Tool Estimates Markets for 204 Food Products Nationwide
The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University has developed a simple on-line tool to help farmers, agricultural organizations, public agencies and local food and economic development groups get a "first look" at potential markets. The new tool, called the U.S. Food Market Size Estimator, is available at: http://www.ctre.iastate.edu/marketsize.
Users can find the approximate demand for 204 food products in every county of the United States. Products include milk, cheese and dairy foods; fresh, frozen or canned fruits and vegetables; grains; meat, fish and nuts.
Iowa Food Cooperative: A New Web-based Ordering System
A new web-based ordering system will bring food directly from farmers to consumers in central Iowa. The Iowa Food Cooperative will begin taking orders by the end of October, with monthly distribution at Merle Hay Mall in Des Moines. Details on the coop's web site at: http://www.iowafood.org
Funding / Grants / Other Opportunities
Funding Available for Extension Educators to Implement e-Commerce Strategies
As part of the National e-Commerce Extension Initiative, the Southern Rural Development Center (SRDC) is sparking national interest in the implementation of the Initiative's online learning modules. From getting rural communities online to revamping farm management, these curricula prepare entrepreneurs and small business owners to enjoy the benefits that e-commerce can bring. With an implementation mini-grant, U.S. Land-Grant Extension educators or teams may receive up to $3,000 to implement one of the FOUR new e-commerce educational curricula that the SRDC has released, or is scheduled to release, over the next month. Proposals outlining how educators propose to implement these curricula are due by 5 p.m. on January 9, 2009. To view the one-hour Webinar discussing the request for proposals in detail and to learn more about the National e-Commerce Extension Initiative, visit http://srdc. msstate.edu/ecommerce.