Jesup Group

New Podcast Episode Alert! This past week I attended my second year of CDI Central at the University of Central Arkansas. While there, I borrowed about 45 minutes of Shelby Fiegel's 14-hour day to record a podcast.

Through Crowder College, the Jesup Group exists to serve our rural nine-county service area in SW Missouri. We will bring Shelby and a few others who are connected to CDI ,up to Crowder later this year. My hope is, in the coming years Shelby sees MANY faces from SW Missouri in Conway- learning how to serve our communities better and make them even better places to live, work, and play.
http://jesupgroup.com/podcast/the-community-development-institute-cdi-with-shelby-fiegel-episode-21/?preview=true

The Jesup Group is focused on three areas:

1)Entrepreneurship as a concurrent, grassroots method of economic development.

2) Community development to attract and retain talent in the rural communities that Crowder College serves.

3) Expand access to digital skills- to increasingly participate in the growing digital economy.

A recent effort, Innovate Southern Missouri, allows us check all three boxes in one initiative! Stakeholders throughout our region, led by Codefi and The eFactory, have partnered to build capacity and serve residents throughout the southern region of Missouri. We are excited about this effort and your community should be too!

Southern Missouri Innovation Network The largest regional workforce and business development network in the state’s history

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