NETmobile
The NETmobile is a wireless mobile office equipped with Internet access via satellite link. It is capable of setting up in a meeting room for larger groups to demonstrate what you can do with access to the Internet. Our goal is to make sure that technology is made available to all of the Delta Region, enhance business, schools, local governments and anyone who desires to know more about what the Internet can do for them.

New! How to Organize Your Neighborhood
Introductory seminar on what neighborhood associations are and do, the basic steps to organizing, and the best 10 ideas for strengthening property values. For neighborhoods of 20-300 homes. Two hours. $10/participant, including materials.


Citizen Attitudes Survey
A scientific survey to determine what the citizens in your city think about economic development, parks, infrastructure, city services, taxes, etc. Call us to discuss the terms and conditions, and cost estimates.


Develop an Ongoing Community Leadership Program in Your Town or County
A three-hour introductory session conducted in your community. Based on lessons from the 8-year-old ASU Regional Leaders Program, and other successful small city leadership programs. Cost: $200/seminar*


State and Federal Table Hop
We arrange for at least 15 different state and federal resource agencies, both public and private, to visit your community for a 2-hour "Table Hop" event. Local citizens and organizational representatives move freely from table to table having one-on-one conversations with agency representatives about their services, programs and latest offerings. Done in association with a local organization. Cost: $200*


Community Long-Range Strategic Plan
Three hour organizational session to get your community on its way to a successful planning effort based on citizen involvement at the neighborhood level. Cost: $500/seminar*.


Community Leadership Training
Six 1-day sessions and three 2-day sessions scheduled over a 9-month period beginning in August. Join the nearly 400 people from throughout north and east Arkansas who have graduated from the Arkansas State University "Regional Leaders Program" since it began in 1989. Each session is held in a different host community, and one is held overnight in Little Rock. Enhance leadership skills, and learn about the latest and best ideas in developing communities. Audience: emerging as well as established leaders from both public and private sectors. Cost: $500**.

"Exceeded expectations! I had no idea of the breadth of ideas and information that would be provided. (I have had some leadership training previously, but nothing as comprehensive as RLP.)"


Discover Total Resources!
Mobilizing resources. A unique and fun simulation involving all participants as members of two competing nonprofit boards on a journey to quickly understand the importance and value of 42 types of resources in four categories: Money, Goods, People and Services. Time - 4.5 hours; minimum/maximum # of participants - 15/40.


New! Collaborating Effectively
Collaboration has become the new buzzword! People use it to describe any time they get together for a purpose beyond normal duties or interests. True collaboration means doing things very differently than we've done them before. Technical assistance and training provided for 10 communities thus far.

Take charge!
The aim of the Take Charge model, a strategic planning method developed by extension service workers at universities in Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota and Indiana, is to bring representatives from business, education, local government and agriculture together to map out an economic development plan that will give local leaders ideas for future development. The process helps the individuals to focus on three main questions: 1) Where are we now? 2) Where do we want to be? 3) How do we get there? During the planning stages participants are given a "framework" for understanding their community and are asked to identify five kinds of "community capital" - human, financial, physical, social and environmental. This forces the group to look at all aspects of the community to insure they're looking at everything.


* Prices are scaled based on ability to pay.
**Scholarships may be available.

Contact information
Jerry Smith
Center for Regional & Community Development
870-972-3850
jerry@astate.edu

The Center at ASU is a project of the Economic Development Administration (EDA), U.S. Department of Commerce.