Rural Competition for Economic Development Dollars Gets Creative Funding Source

Rural projects often lose out on economic incentives to urban projects. It was a common refrain from Chair Chen Button’s interim committee on economic incentives, and it is a common refrain throughout the country.
 
Nevada has a creative solution.
 
Rural Chambers of Commerce created a competition for economic development funds. The competition is funded by Frontier Communications, the Dish Network and CoBank.
 
Rural communities vie for the opportunity to win up to $3M in economic development funding in the competition.  Governing