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The question we asked to start off the Prairie Idea Exchange was this: Read More »

PIE participants agreed that while regional collaboration is a good idea in theory, and often fun in practice, seeing measurable results can be tough. Read More »

Regional collaborations are already happening around a variety of community needs in the Dakotas. Read More »

Communities that know their regional role can see opportunities in other communities’ needs Read More »

Want to do something grand? You’re going to need a grand plan. That’s the idea behind the Stronger Economies Together (SET) program, which helps multi-county regions create high-quality plans for collaboration that improve their economies. Read More »

Working together as a region makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, good sense alone is not likely to make a regional effort work. Read More »

Our final gathering of the Prairie Idea Exchange brought together people from around the region to talk about what kinds of efforts to look beyond their communities are working, what has torpedoed the regional reaches that didn’t work, and how other efforts could build on the characteristics of success. Read More »

We asked mayors from North and South Dakota to answer this question. Want to answer about your community? Go to www.pie4.us. Read More »

A very experienced systems-thinking friend of mine once shared an idea that totally changed my worldview about how things work: “Every system is designed perfectly to create what it creates.” Read More »