Community Development Project

The Community Development Project utilizes the HomeTown Competitiveness (HTC) model to work with regional communities to build people-centered sustainability strategies.

The HTC model utilizes a four pillar approach:

• Leadership

• Resources for Development

• Entrepreneurship

• Youth

The model is built upon simplicity—every community needs leaders, assets, businesses, and youth to sustain itself. The pillar system motivates activity for the project and sets parameters to help guide community leaders. This model was developed in Nebraska as an answer to community demand.

Currently the Community Development Project is funded by the Bush Foundation, which concentrates its efforts to help the Dakotas and Minnesota create courageous leaders, develop community giving, and concentrate on the development of education leaders and tribal growth. The Community Development Project achieves similar goals through focusing on the impact people have on entrepreneurship, leadership, youth, and community giving.

The communities outlined in the original grant include: Bowman, Hettinger, Dickinson, Killdeer, Williston, Medora, and the Fort Berthold Reservation. These communities have all chosen specific individual pillars to direct their efforts towards.

For more information please contact:

Amanda Lynn Moser
Community Development Project Coordinator
Strom Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Dickinson State University
701-483-2830
amanda.moser@dickinsonstate.edu