SaveYour.Town
Building Community and saving your town can be overwhelming when you try to do it all alone. This year our focus is helping you along the way. You…
Welcoming new residents means dealing with those members of your community who are not so open to new people moving in. Practical step 1: Magnify stories of people…
We’re living through a shift in power, to one that is more open to participation by people outside of our formal organization. For local leaders and officials, it’s…
One of my longtime friends in Oklahoma, Melyn Johnson from micropolitan Guymon, Oklahoma, told me a cool thing they do at a local event: they do a parade…
Who knows what trends will affect small and rural communities in 2022 and beyond? Not many trends pieces cover rural places. These trends are specifically about rural and small…
Tionesta, Pennsylvania, picopolitan: population 300, had a big empty lot that they tried for years to get a developer to rebuild. Finally, they gave up on that and…
SaveYour.Town co-founder Becky McCray explains how she came up with the Idea Friendly Method. Since the 1990s, I’ve brought new technology into organizations that were pretty stuck in…
Small towns run on volunteer energy. In the new Idea Friendly way of volunteering, not everyone has to volunteer in the same way. Even clicking ‘like’ can count…
You just have to be open to new ideas Our Idea Friendly Method is backed by research, but refreshingly simple and practical. Iowa State University studied 99 small…
How do we rebuild our local economy? This crisis is different for each community. So many jobs lost, so many businesses gone or in bad shape. Most of…
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