Building Entrepreneurial Communities Act (LB 232)

I strongly believe that rural economic development is one of the best tools in the toolbox when it comes to fighting the Brain Drain. We have to continue to grow our towns and retain our young people. We have to create opportunities to grow businesses and economies. In 2005, the Legislature passed the Building Entrepreneurial Communities Act. The act supports economically depressed rural areas of Nebraska in building entrepreneurial communities through grants that will create community capacity to build and sustain programs to generate wealth in the community and region (NE Stat 81-12,126).