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Success Stories

A mother and three daughters pose around a dining room table. There are lace curtains and blue wall in the background and some dishes on the table in the foreground.

“This is Home” – A Family Finds Their Forever Home in Calais, Maine

One of the first rooms Heather Gagne and her daughters began redecorating in their new home is the dining room, shown in the top photo. They have been busy repainting and making other updates. Raising a family in coastal Machias, Maine may sound lovely, but for Heather Gagne recent years proved stressful. There were few housing options in their Downeast community, and Heather was glad to find a rental home to…
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Lake Odessa Library Expansion Boosts Local Community

Outline Of Need: The Lake  Odessa Community Library opened in January of 1987. The original building was 1,500 square feet and in response to high usage from local residents, the library moved to its current 3,800 square foot location in 1998. Since then, demand for… [Read More]
Community Facilities

Math & Science Building Gives Students New Opportunities

Lincoln Memorial University (LMU), founded in 1897 as a living memorial to Abraham Lincoln, is striving to rewrite the narrative of Appalachia in the Cumberland Gap of rural Northeastern Tennessee.  LMU recognized a rapidly growing need to expand its math and science… [Read More]
Community FacilitiesEducation

Mid-State Provides Affordable Healthcare and Creates Jobs in New Venue

Mid-State Health opened a brand new 10,000 square-foot medical clinic in Bristol, New Hampshire in 2014 offering affordable healthcare services and career opportunities to some of the 21,000 rural residents of central New Hampshire. Mid-State Health has been an integral part of… [Read More]
Community Facilities
A new steel building as an addition to Historical Society Museum.

New Addition for Pennsylvania Colony Historical Society Museum

The Pennsylvania Colony Historical Society needed to construct a building at their museum site in Dawson, Nebraska to store and display artifacts of the Pennsylvania Dutch population that migrated to Nebraska.  The house that was used for the museum was small and although… [Read More]
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New Classroom.

New Classrooms at College Help Meet Demand for Higher Education

Little Priest Tribal College in Winnebago, Nebraska, is experiencing continued growth in student enrollment which stands at 768 students for all campuses. This is a 40% increase and the trend is expected to continue as the college pursues a robust recruiting and public relations… [Read More]
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Tioga Clinic

New Clinic to Serve Growing Needs of Industry Workers

Economic opportunity in North Dakota’s oil industry has brought an influx of workers to the state while also adding pressure to rural services such as health care. The Tioga Medical Center campus, which serves northwestern North Dakota’s Divide, Williams, Burke and Mountrail… [Read More]
Community Facilities
Byron Library Chairs

New Community Center, New Library, New Outlook

The Village of Byron, a community of 83, was given a grand opportunity to bring new life back into the community. Through a donation from a local resident it was able to build a much needed community center.  This building would also house the Village Hall and the library.… [Read More]
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Image of Minersville library renovation

New Equipment Revitalizes Small Town Library

Rural libraries often serve as community gathering places. Public voting, educational activities, and more take place in public libraries and the historic library in the Town of Minersville is no different.  Located twenty miles from any other town, the Minersville Public… [Read More]
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Janet Ross of the Four Corners School of Outdoor Education

New Vehicles Help Keep Students Moving for Outdoor Education

For students participating in the Canyon Country Youth Corps (CCYC) at the Four Corners School of Outdoor Education (FCS), a hard hat and shovel prove to be just as useful as a pencil and paper. CCYC is just one of four interrelated programs at the school and participation in it… [Read More]
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Niobrara Valley Hospital in Lynch, Nebraska.

Niobrara Valley Hospital Pursues Building Upgrade

Niobrara Valley Hospital (NVH) is the only hospital located within Boyd County that has served the communities since 1971. NVH is a 20 bed critical access hospital in Lynch, Nebraska, that currently provides physical therapy, respite care, observation stay, acute care, swing bed… [Read More]
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