The Rural Development Innovation Center is hard-wired into USDA’s customer-driven approach in helping communities achieve prosperity across rural America. The Center applies cutting-edge techniques to provide innovative products and services to its rural customers. The Center works to improve prosperity for rural communities through its three divisions: Strategic Engagement, Data Analytics and Regulations Management.
Learn more about the Center’s three divisions and the innovative resources they have created to help rural customers thrive.
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How the Center Works
The chart below shows how The Innovation Center works through collaboration with other devisions of USDA RD including COO/Business Center, Chief Risk Office, Rural Development Programs, Rural Development State & Field Offices, Office of External Affairs, and external stakeholders.
Initiatives to Support Rural America
The Innovation Center is supporting the following initiatives to help bring prosperity to rural America. For full details about USDA RD’s initiatives, view all supported initiatives.
OneRD Guarantee Loan Initiative
USDA has removed unnecessary regulations to increase private investment in rural businesses and rural economic development projects and to improve customer service within four key guaranteed loan programs.
Rural Workforce Innovation Network (RWIN)
USDA established RWIN to create a forum for public and private partners to help increase access to workforce opportunities across rural America. This network represents governmental entities, colleges and universities, nonprofit organizations, and private businesses that are actively working to improve workforce development in their local communities.
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