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Success Stories

A mother and three daughters pose around a dining room table. There are lace curtains and blue wall in the background and some dishes on the table in the foreground.

“This is Home” – A Family Finds Their Forever Home in Calais, Maine

One of the first rooms Heather Gagne and her daughters began redecorating in their new home is the dining room, shown in the top photo. They have been busy repainting and making other updates. Raising a family in coastal Machias, Maine may sound lovely, but for Heather Gagne recent years proved stressful. There were few housing options in the Downeast community, and Heather was glad to find a rental home to…
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REDI

Providing Assistance to Students with Developmental Disabilities

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is providing the assistance through an initiative called Rural Economic Development Innovation, REDI. USDA’s Innovation Center created REDI to support recommendations identified in the report to the president from the Interagency Task Force on… [Read More]
Florida and Virgin Islands
RCDI
New warehouse for storage of seeds delivered for customers.

Keeping the Business Local

Agricultural producers in Valley and Garfield counties had been able to purchase Syngenta corn and soybean seeds for eight years from a local provider.  When the dealer decided to retire, it looked as though these rural producers would have to switch their seed brand or… [Read More]
Nebraska
Business
Rosemary is all smiles!

Rosemary is all smiles!

She had just tuned 19 but Rosemary Zamora knew she was at a crossroads in her life. It was July 2017 and just weeks before she had given birth to her son, Andrew. As the result of being a high-risk pregnancy, Rosemary was forced to drop out of high school a few months short of… [Read More]
Florida and Virgin Islands
Housing
Improved Water Service quality for residents in Charlotte County

Improved Water Service quality for residents in Charlotte County

The residents of Charlotte Harbor CDP and Harbour Heights CDP in Charlotte County, Florida have been suffering from constant interruptions to their water service, boil water notices, and exposure to contamination due to the constant repairs of aged steel pipes. Additionally,… [Read More]
Florida and Virgin Islands
Water
Dakotaland Manufacturing

Leader in Both Metal Fabrication and Precision Machining Makes Energy Improvements to Rural Business

Two organizations, Westland Manufacturing and JMS Precision, merged their organizations in August 2015 to operate under one company doing business as Dakotaland Manufacturing.  Both companies are in Eastern South Dakota. Westland, based in Sioux Falls, grew its metal… [Read More]
South Dakota
REAP
Never Give Up!

Never Give Up!

Mr. Joel Mendez Santiago heard about Homes in Partnership through a close friend and decided to take a chance. Previously, Mr. Mendez tried with several failed attempts to get a home loan and due of his credit history  and collections it became a road block. Mr. Mendez… [Read More]
Florida and Virgin Islands
Housing
USDA funds water project to install a granular activated carbon filtration system to improve Apalachicola's Water Treatment Plant

USDA funds water project to install a granular activated carbon filtration system to improve Apalachicola's Water Treatment Plant

The City of Apalachicola’s drinking water was out of compliance for Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM),  a by-product of the chlorine disinfection process. Even though, Trihalomethanes are among the most widespread organic contaminants in drinking water today, they do pose… [Read More]
Florida and Virgin Islands
Water
Pod D addition to Howard County Medical Center.

Hospital Addition Brings New Services and Patients

The City of St. Paul (pop. 2,290) is home to the Howard County Medical Center (HCMC), a 16 bed Critical Access Hospital and rural health clinic.  The Center had outgrown their service area and needed to expand in order to eliminate overcrowding and to allow concentration… [Read More]
Nebraska
Health Care
Updated radiology equipment.

Renovations Bring Major Changes

The City of Minden, Neb. (pop. 2,923), is the home of Kearney County Health Services, a 10 bed Critical Access Hospital with an attached rural health clinic that provides acute and swing bed inpatient care, emergency care, primary care, as well as outpatient surgery, laboratory… [Read More]
Nebraska
Health Care
Saluda County Water and Sewer Authority

Saluda County Water and Sewer Authority Celebrates Grand Opening of Their $20 Million Water Treatment Plant

On August 28, 2019, Saluda County Water and Sewer Authority celebrated the grand opening of their new water treatment plant.  The new facility will provide four million gallons per day of treated water to Saluda County and can be expanded to treat six million gallons per… [Read More]
South Carolina
Water

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