An Institute that exists to help small towns thrive. We offer a range of services to all levels of players, always striving to diversify and expand resources available in towns, to help entrepreneurship thrive, working to understand what makes entrepreneurship succeed in rural environments, and to diversify local economies beyond agriculture and land based economies. We partner with others having the same goals to build value for rural environments that will enable them to grow economically and thrive socially, culturally and environmentally.