Community and Economic Development (all blogs)

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Getting to Know New Hampshire
UNH Extension internships provide real-world experience
UNH Extension internships provide real-world experience Learn More
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Exploring Communities and a Career with UNH Extension Internships
UNH Extension internships offer valuable experience and a chance to make a difference
UNH Extension internships offer valuable experience and a chance to make a difference Learn More
Keeping and Growing our NH Businesses: Hiring a Wildcat helps with Business Retention
Businesses bring jobs to a community, they infuse money into the local economy, they enhance peoples’ quality of life, and they help define and add to... Learn More
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Craft Breweries and Community
A vibrant community has places for people to gather and interact. Community leaders are looking increasingly to craft breweries as a path to community... Learn More
From Bluegrass to Granite: Community & Economic Development Explores Kentucky’s Trail Town Program
Amid the knobs and flowing rivers of Eastern Kentucky members of the Community and Economic Development team recently witnessed first-hand a program t... Learn More
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Sullivan County Residents Embrace Web-based Mapping App to Build Regional Identity
What’s unique about Sullivan County, New Hampshire? A community-based, county-wide initiative, facilitated by UNH Cooperative Extension, has launched ... Learn More
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Economic Development Academy Sparks Successful Projects in Communities
This year’s Economic Development Academy wrapped up with a final graduation ceremony on Friday that featured three keynote speakers, as well as partic... Learn More
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UNH Students Learn and Apply Principles from the Nature Economy
What are externalities and why should we care? How can communities reduce negative externalities and increase positive ones? Students at UNH have been... Learn More
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Students Assess Downtown Dover using First Impressions
By Tyler Quinn Smith, Community & Environmental Planning Major, UNH 2018 Last week marked the pinnacle of the First Impressions project as the ... Learn More
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Understanding How Local Community Members Value the Benefits of Small Streams in the Great Bay Watershed
Just what is your water worth? Our team is trying to answer this very question. We are working with communities to better understand how they use and ... Learn More