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An Update of Activities:
August 2001
Strategic Plan FY2001
Strategic Planning
Process
 Actively engaged the Southern Region Rural
Development Consortium
 Sampled 150 persons from the consortium
 Did e-mail or telephone surveys
 Participants provided input on six key
questions
 Results were closely studied by the SRDC
TAC in the Fall of 2000
 TAC provided input on the Center’s five new
goals
 Goals approved by the Board January 2001
Revising
Our Mission Statement
 Current Mission
 New Mission
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The SRDC serves as a
proactive leader and primary
facilitator of rural development
research, education and policy
dialogue that will improve the
socioeconomic conditions of
the Southern region.
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The SRDC fosters innovative
and creative approaches to
sustainable rural development
and serves as a key player in
building collaborative networks
that reach across agencies,
institutions and communities.
The Southern Rural Development
Center seeks to strengthen the
capacity of the region’s 29 landgrant institutions to address critical
contemporary rural development
issues impacting the well-being of
people and communities in the rural
South. It does so by:
 stimulating the formation of multistate research teams
 coordinating the development of
educational materials
 organizing and delivering research
and educational
workshops/conferences
 preparing science-based reports
 building partnerships
New SRDC Goals
 Strengthen the engagement of rural people
and organizations in the civic life of their
communities
 Promote sound rural economic and workforce
development strategies that improve job
quality and the competitiveness of workers in
the rural South
 Assist in developing strategies for addressing
the challenges associated with the expansion
of urban and surburban localities into rural
areas
New SRDC Goals
 Expand efforts to improve health care access
in the rural South, and explore strategies for
reducing the prevalence of food insecurity
and hunger
 Explore the prevalence of a “digital divide”
among various populations and communities in
the South
Some Current Activities
Educational Curricula
and Resources
 Southern Perspectives Newsletter
 CD Institute
 Take Charge Training Curriculum
 Ca$hing in on Business Opportunities
 Community Choices Public Issues Education
 Economic Development Curricula Resources
 Public Conflict Resolution: Turning Lemons into
Lemonade
 E-commerce curriculum resources
 E-commerce reports
Training Activities
 COMPLETED
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Sustainable Development Conference
Southern Region Health Institute
Mid-South Delta Consortium
Building Tomorrow’s Workforce
Examining the Rural/Urban Interface
• 3 reports being finalized
 Southern Region CD Institute
 UPCOMING
 Southern and Delta Regional Rural Conference (Sept.)
 E-Commerce: Impacting the way we do business (Oct.)
 Southern Region Health Institute (Oct.)
• Video on the community’s health care system
 Southern Institute for Rural Development (Nov.)
 State of the South Forums (MS)
 National Community Economic and Resources Development Conference
(Feb. 2001)
Applied Research Activities
 Workforce Investment Areas: GIS Map and Data
 SSARE/SRDC Sustainable Community
Innovations Grant Program
 Rural Schools Initiative
 Latino Population in the South
 New policy series:
• “Food Assistance Needs of the South’s Vulnerable
Populations”
Millennium Series . . .
“The Rural South: Preparing for the Challenges
of the 21st Century”
 21 issues published to date
 Has been one of our most popular series
 At least 4,000 electronic requests for
various issues of the series were made in the
Year 2000
 Being integrated into classroom teaching,
being used by CSREES with Congressional
staffers, and by selected state and regional
organizations
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Website Enhancements (Monthly
Statistics, June 2000 - July 2001)
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Sabbatical Leave and
Senior Fellows Program
 Requested proposals from faculty wishing to
undertake a sabbatical working with the SRDC
• Host institution provides salary
• SRDC provides up to $20,000 to support activity
relevant to the priorities of the Center
 Funded a Senior fellows program
• Sought innovative proposals designed to build on the
five new SRDC goals. Funds of up to $6,000 for a
one-year period were being made available
• Expect to fund 4 projects
SRDC Funding FY 2000
Extramural Funding
Base Funding
$255,880
$342,692
Extramural Funding Since
January 2001
 Approximately $267,000
 Submitted Fund for Rural
America Application for
nearly $600,000
 Other resources being
sought (such as the Ford
Foundation)