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Dakota
Heartland Champion Community
 The
Dakota Heartland Champion Community which includes all of McIntosh
County and the developable sites of Edgeley, Kulm and Napoleon,
North Dakota envisions and shall strive for a safe, healthy,
well-maintained, and attractive environment for our community
that is appealing to young and old alike.
We shall embrace our tradition rich with moral values and
a strong work ethic, and celebrate and invite the contributions
to a thriving community from all ages, races and creeds - to
help us grow our community - embracing our past and making our
future.
With visionary community leadership, cooperation and involvement,
we will promote the qualities of small town life, while actively
pursuing a vigorous and stable economy to ensure a prosperous
future for our Dakota Heartland Champion Community - building
on existing resources and embracing new opportunities inherent
in the new economy.
Mission
Statement
The Dakota Heartland Champion Community will encourage cooperation
and develop partnerships, build leadership capacity through educational
opportunities, and secure needed resources to create growth within
our organization and communities.
Goals
for DHCC
- To increase the population within the champion community To
increase skills and earnings of persons now employed in the champion
community to those now earned in the major metro areas of the
state
- To create quality, vibrant and thriving communities by providing
the infrastructure, services and amenities that people need
- To undertake regional approaches to challenges and opportunities
within the champion community.
- To
ensure that the residents and businesses of the champion community
are connected to the resources and opportunities
- To foster entrepreneurial development that will start and nurture
new companies and retain and expand existing companies.
- To facilitate the development of sustainable opportunities
(e.g. organic crops, wind energy, hunting, fishing, tourism,
etc.)
- To secure funding to provide for at least a $1 million revolving
loan fund to provide resources to businesses and communities
within 10 years
- To establish an endowment fund or foundation to secure sustainable
income for the champion community organization within 10 years
- To establish at least one new business in each community that
provides for head-of-household income wages (no time limit decided
upon)
- To establish and maintain a website and create a marketing
strategy by the end of 2005
- To commit to educational challenges by developing new leaders
for the organization, i.e. expand the specialized committees,
make sure that alternates come to meetings, identify new people
to become involved within 2 years
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