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NORTHWEST
MINNESOTA
Business Growth
City Sites
County Related
Education
Tourism Sites
NWRDC PROGRAMS
Aging
Arts
Census/Data
Econ. Dev.
Farm
Flood
Health Insurance
Housing
Loan Fund
Local Issues
Transportation
OTHER
Legislative
RDC's
Foundations
State Offices
National Sites
FUN SITES
Business
Promo
Please send link suggestions to mara@nwrdc.org
last update
12/14/2007
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"These free listings are not necessarily
supported or funded by the Northwest Regional Development Commission.
The NWRDC has the right to deny any requests. All links are
periodically reviewed."
NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
Business growth means starting or
growing a business in our area of Minnesota. Good sites to search
include:
- MNPRO
- The Department of Trade and Economic Development provides the
MNPRO site as an opportunity for communities to market to businesses
looking to expand or start-up in new locations. The MNPRO
System offers information on available properties and provides
Community Profile Reports for the State of Minnesota.
- NWMN - This site being developed as a marketplace and business listing
for Northwest Minnesota. It will also be an index of other
sites related to our area.
- Minnesota
Rural Partners - Web site related to the Minnesota Rural Summit
to take place in Rochester in July. This group brings together
a variety of people interested in rural issues.
- Northern Tier High
Technology Corridor - is an online business resource for
Northern Minnesota, providing Minnesota economic development tools,
info on MN assistance for nonprofit businesses, RFP listings, MN
Communities of practice and collaborative knowledge management.
- Northwest Private
Industry Council - deals with workforce development issues, as
they arise, in Kittson, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk, Red
Lake, and Roseau counties. The NWPIC has dealt with, and will
continue to deal with, such diverse workforce development issues as
the lack of trained workers, the out-migration of the best and the
brightest youth, the aging of the local workforce, and the
preparation of youth for their entry into the workforce.
sgagner@ngwmail.des.state.mn.us Suzan Gagner 218-281-6020
Cities in Northwest Minnesota with Web Sites.
Note: Some cities have multiple sites.
County Related Sites
Extension Services
Education Related Sites
School Districts
Private Schools
Universities/Colleges
Tourism:
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Minnesota's Great Northwest
Sponsored
by the three main tourism organizations in our area Riverland,
Borderland, and Northwest Gateway. The site lists information
on tourism related activities in Northwest Minnesota including parks
and picnic areas, campgrounds, resorts and motels, snowmobile
trails, golf courses, historical sites, tours and activities; and
special events. (They used our NWRDC Tourism Directory information
to build this great site!)
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Explore
Minnesota
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Pine to
Prairie Birding Trail
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Tourism Center
- a program of the University of Minnesota Extension Service
NWRDC PROGRAMS
Aging:
Arts: 
There are too many links in the arts section to list
them here, so we have only included
these four main links.
Click on the word here to enter the Arts
Links page.
Census:
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Datanet
- Datanet provides access to a variety of demographic
databases from the U. S. Bureau of the Census and State
Demographer's Office. |
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Minnesota
State Demographic Center, Minnesota Planning - Includes more
reports with data analysis and trends. Links to other demographic sites. |
| American
Fact Finder - Basic facts, data sets, and maps in easy to use
format. |
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Census
Bureau, US Department of Commerce - 1990 Census Data and
information on 2000 Census. American Fact Finder, a data
dissemination system, has demographic and economic information. |
| U.S.
Census Quick Facts |
| Government
Publications Library - Demographic profile of MN cities, counties, and
townships, including housing, educational attainment, income, economic, and
other data from U.S. Census 2000. |
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Bureau
of Economic Analysis -
Economic and Income Data |
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Minnesota
Workforce Center - Look in the Labor Market Info section for
information on Employment/Unemployment Data. |
Please contact our NWRDC staff member
Leon Heath at lheath@nwrdc.org
if you have questions on Northwest Minnesota data. The NWRDC
is an affiliate of the state demographic center.
Health
Insurance Counseling
Economic Development
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Small Business
Administration - provides technical support, loans, and other
types of assistance to business and industry.
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US Department of
Agriculture - USDA provides services, leans and grants to assist
businesses and communities with a variety of needs.
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Rural
Development - The section of the US Department of Agriculture
which provides funding for infrastructure, housing, business
expansions and other economic and community development
activities. Local offices in Thief River Falls at
218-681-4815.
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Economic
Development Administration, US Department of Commerce
- Programs of the Federal Economic Development Administration
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iseek.org
- Explore and make smart choices about your
education, career, employment, and business needs.
Farm Wrap
Flood Recovery Information
Local Issues
Transportation
OTHER GOVERNMENT SITES
Legislative:
For a more complete listing of
legislative information see our NW
Minnesota Legislators page.
Other Regional
Development Commission Sites
Region 2 - Headwater
Regional Development Commission
Region 3 - Arrowhead Regional Development
Commission
Region 4 - West Central Initiative
Regions 6E - Mid-Minnesota Regional
Development Commission
Regions 8 - Southwest Regional
Development Commission
Region 9 Development Commission
Region 11 - Metropolitan
Council
www.mrdo.org for information on Minnesota Regional Development
Organizations.
For a more complete listing of RDC
information see our RDC links page.
Foundation Sites
State Government
State and Local
Government on the Net: Minnesota good search engine
North Star: State of Minnesota -
Minnesota's home page
National Sites related to Government
Research
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