Rural Entrepreneurs

Want to know how walkable your neighborhood — or prospective neighborhood — is?
 
WalkScore.com is a website that calculates a community’s “walkability” rating.
Take a look how a stroll might look in your neighborhood.
 
Walk On! The Walk Score Blog

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Elance … A great resource for Rural Entrepreneurs and/or Anyone!
 
A fellow small business owner has struggled to get quality, timely web design and graphic art work done. She is appreciating the resource of Elance.

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Tieton … a burgeoning arts community in the Yakima Valley.

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FINCA International provides financial services the the world’s lowest-income entrepreneurs. Repayment rates are 97+%!

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Never heard of geocaching? You’re not alone. Think of it as a high-tech treasure hunt that blends a scavenger hunt with some of today’s leading technology … the Global Positioning System (GPS) and a computer.

www.geocaching.com, the official geocaching Web site
Geocaching is an international activity with caches located around the globe.
An ideal activity […]

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Told he couldn’t grow grapes in NE Oregon, Rod Gilstrap planted the first vines in 1993. Sixteen years later Gilstrap Brothers Winery is carving a niche in the Oregon market.
Great to have our own local vineyard and Winery.
Follow The Grape Vine Trail.

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In 1985 Bert Sperling began developing a software program for people to enter personal preferences to find the best place to live for their tastes.
Check out Sperling’s BestPlaces, a series of interactive pages for users to search for their best place to live.
Optional use … going traveling for business or pleasure … check out […]

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Tap into the entrepreneurial spirit of Masha Hamilton and where it has lead …
The Camel Book Drive: Helping Bring Books Where They Have Never Been Before

An article in a magazine piqued my interest. Inspiring!

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I heard a great story on NPR about a computer programmer in Indiana who developed a game to help his children improve their vocabulary and linked it to helping fight world hunger. Fascianting where a simple idea can lead.
FreeRice has two goals:

Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free.
Help end world hunger by providing […]

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“Changing Lives One Bridge At a Time”
College students at The University of Iowa … my college alma mater … combined their engineering skills, communication and organizational skills for a powerful learning experience.
Check out their project, Continental Crossings, providing safe passage.

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