Partners in
Horizons
The NDSU
Extension Service is pleased to work with many partners in
the Horizons program. Besides the 23 community
partners, NDSU Extension is supported by the Northwest Area
Foundation financially and works with both the Study Circles
Resource Center and Pew Partnership for curriculum and
training. To learn more about each of these partners,
please follow the links to their websites.
Northwest Area Foundation
Within the
Northwest Area Foundation, there are many great online, specific
resources for communities. A few are listed here:
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NWAF Solutions Depot -
www.nwaf-solutionsdepot.org - an online resource for
community-focused poverty reduction and prosperity building.
Find how-to-guides, web-based calculators and analyzers,
reports and studies, links to organizations and communities.
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Indicators Website -
www.indicators.nwaf.org - features the latest measures
of population, unemployment, income, poverty, education and
housing - 46 indicators in all. Provides data on
states, counties, selected communities and American Indian
reservations in MN, IA, ND, SD, MT, ID, WA and OR.
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Wage and Benefits Metric -
http://jobmetric.nwaf.org - this web-based tool uses a
point-scale system to evaluate jobs based on wage and
benefit levels. It is designed to help communities
measure the quality of jobs that are or will be part of
their local economy.
Everyday
Democracy (formerly Study Circles Resource Center)
Pew
Partnership (LeadershipPLENTY�
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