Details for Prairie States Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership: A National Model for Rural Economic Recovery

(February 2003) Three regional organizations – the Comanche Pool Prairie Resource Foundation in Kansas, the High Plains Resource Conservation and Development District in Oklahoma, and the Texas Prairie Rivers Region, Inc. – have developed a successful track record for bringing together partners from multiple counties and states to solve common problems. It was a natural extension of this informal alliance, bound by similar geographic and cultural traits, to band together as the Prairie States Coalition to address their mutual economic crisis. This report highlights their cooperative development efforts.