The City of Abilene has been awarded an $89,787 USDA Rural Business Development Grant to establish a Rural Business Accelerator Program, which will be delivered in partnership with Driving Dickinson County.
Students at the revamped Rural Youth in Business summer program learning about entrepreneurship through an agribusiness lens. (Gil Pound/GCSU Communications)
For eight states, about 10% of their allotment from the Rural Health Transformation Fund will go not to rural hospitals, but to tech companies seeking innovative solutions to challenges rural healthcare providers face.
