25th Anniversary
Minnesota Community Pride Competition this summer!
All communities recognized and winners to be announced at the 2009 Minnesota State Fair!
Contest Begins: June 2, 2009
Entry Deadline: July 17, 2009
Enter at: http://www.reinventingminnesota.org/
All communities recognized & winners announced
at the 2009 Minnesota State Fair
Why enter the Minnesota Community Pride contest?
1. To spotlight the good things happening in your community. (Hey ya get to be recognized at the State Fair, for gosh sakes!)
2. Because you can inspire others.
3. Connecting people and ingenuity helps us all thrive.
Minnesota Community Pride is part of the Reinventing Minnesota initiative, to identify communities statewide for their efforts to move beyond the current economic crisis with creative and proactive community and economic development initiatives, and to share those best practices with their neighbors across the state.
In 1984, during a similar economic crisis, the State of Minnesota with public and private partners began the Minnesota Community Pride program. This year’s 25th anniversary contest is co-sponsored by the Minnesota State Fair, MinnPost.com, and Minnesota Rural Partners, Inc.
The competition, which begins June 2, will lift up and publicly recognize the energy and ingenuity of Minnesota’s communities in both overall community and economic development achievement, and innovations in specific disciplines, such as education, broadband deployment and application, health care, entrepreneurship support, arts & culture, and public finance and more.
