The Southwest Initiative Foundation has partnered with many regional entities, including our colleagues at the Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation in Owatonna, to form the Partnership for Southern Minnesota Regional Competitiveness Project, designed to build a development strategy focused on the key assets within the 38 counties of the southern portion of our state.

We believe this project will help us build on the important work we’ve already done in building our regional capacity for success by getting more leaders with important experience and knowledge involved.

This opportunities report from 2008 includes key information pertaining to southwest and southern Minnesota businesses, organizations and communities.

Download report.

Read about the great things happening in southwest Minnesota in this special 25th Anniversary edition of Connect.

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Stories include:

• SWIF’s Anniversary Banquet Honors 25 Years Together
• Honor Flight’s Final Call
• The McKnight Foundation’s Partnership
• Anniversary Award Recipients
• Hutchinson Community Foundation’s Milestone
• News from YES!, Early Childhood Initiative, Microlending and Farmland Retention Program

If you’d like to recieve a print copy of this newsletter, please contact us at info@swifoundation.org or call 1-800-594-9480.

Have you checked out our current Spring Connect Newsletter? To view the most recent edition of the Southwest Initiative Foundation’s Connect newsletter, click on the links below.

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Get your renewable energy news here! The fall 2008 edition of IQ magazine, a one-time joint publication between the Initiative Foundation and SWIF dedicated exclusively to energy issues, is available online. This special edition of IQ magazine is chock full of news and information from Minnesota experts working in the areas of energy conservation, renewable resources, education, workforce and more. We hope you enjoy reading it!

Power to the People

Minnesota’s Renewable Optimism