HomeTown Competitiveness:  A Comprehensive Approach

HTC is a comprehensive approach to long-term rural community sustainability.  This approach goes beyond the traditional tunnel vision of economic development.  HTC helps the community focus on four interrelated strategies that depend on each other for ultimate success.  

To see real-life examples of how HTC is working in Nebraska click HERE

For information about HTC see the HTC Summary HERE

Visit the official HTC website HERE

Click on the video projector to see the W. K. Kellogg Foundation 2005 Annual Report video

(Due to the size of this video file, it may take up to five minutes to download to your computer)

HomeTown Competitiveness has been chosen as one of six recipients of grants provided through the W. K. Kellogg Foundation’s 75th Anniversary Entrepreneurship Development Systems for Rural America.  See the PRESS RELEASE and FACT SHEET for more information on this $2 million award from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.

Legislation that can work with HTC to strengthen Nebraskan Communities

The purpose of the Building Communities Act (LB 90) is to support economically distressed rural areas of Nebraska through grants that will create community capacity to build and sustain programs to generate and retain wealth in the community and region.  LB90 FACT SHEET

HTC in the News

Hometown Competitiveness Closes the Development Loop  In trying to seek out part of the $94 billion in wealth transfer that is estimated to occur out of Nebraska in the next ten years, leaders of the Nebraska Community Foundation (NCF) realized that raising money in small towns for playground equipment or a new swimming pool would not be enough to keep young people from leaving for larger cities.

A Unique Approach to Rural Community Enhancement  HomeTown Competitiveness, a Nebraska initiative currently working in seven counties and communities in Nebraska, has been chosen as one of six recipients of grants provided through the W.K. Kellogg Foundation's 75th Anniversary Entrepreneurship Development Systems for Rural America.  

Small-town aid programs merit big attention   HomeTown Competitiveness, a unique Nebraska program designed to reverse decline, has enjoyed quiet triumph since it began in 2002.  As published in the Lincoln Journal Star June 11, 2005 

A valuable investment in rural U.S.  Are you worried about small towns?  Do you fear that these precious, peaceful places to live will face into oblivion?  Do you agree it's time to do something to reinvigorate this treasured style of down home living?  

If you answered yes to any or all of the the questions above, you will find encouragement and inspiration in an announcement which spread through the state today.




For more information on how HTC can help your community, contact:
Jeff Yost, President and CEO
Doug Friedli, Director of Community Fund Development - Eastern Nebraska
Jana Jensen, Director of Community Fund Development - Western Nebraska

For information regarding our HTC Partners 
click on the logos below.

Nebraska Community Foundation

PO Box 83107

Lincoln, NE  68501

Phone: (402) 323-7330    Fax: (402) 323-7349

E-mail: webmaster@nebcommfound.org