Development Corporation of North Platte

DEVCO is the primary agency in North Platte and Lincoln County charged with the retention, expansion, and attraction of business and industry in the region. First incorporated as the Industrial Corporation of North Platte in 1957, DEVCO has been steadfastly committed to helping the North Platte and Lincoln County economy grow and prosper.
Today, DEVCO is [...]

Hormel Family Foundation

The Hormel Family Foundation was founded in 1999 by the late Ben F. Hormel, himself a McCook entrepreneur, to support McCook Community College. Among his many business ventures, Ben F. Hormel operated the Chevrolet dealership in McCook. When Ben F. Hormel passed away in 2002, he passed on the torch to his children and grand-children, [...]

Mid-Plains Center for Enterprise

Mid-Plains Center for Enterprise is dedicated to the proposition that with the right insights, resources, and initiative; even the smallest of opportunities can be transformed into the beginning of a great enterprise.  The Center provides opportunities for entrepreneurs of all ages to move their venture forward.  From programs to encourage youth to consider [...]

Nebraska Business Development Center

NBDC is an educational service desgined to help business owners, especially small and medium-sized businesses, compete more evenly with larger firms that have the resources to employ similar consulting services.
Provide management assistance in the areas of business planning, marketing research to new and existing businesses in Nebraska. Program objectives include creating wealth, employment, increasing sales [...]

Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture Teaches Rural Entrepreneurship

The University of Nebraska’s Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture  - Curtis (NCTA) wants young people to make their living in rural Nebraska and offers unique programs to help them succeed.
“We teach entrepreneurship across our entire curriculum,” said Weldon Sleight, Ph.D., dean of NCTA.
Entrepreneurial skills can help rural residents to establish and maintain both agricultural and non-agricultural [...]

Nebraska Rural Living

Nebraska Rural Living website is the brainchild of two sisters who returned to their small town roots after a life pursuing their dreams in big cities.
Nebraska Rural Living’s mission is to market the very real benefits of a rural lifestyle, especially to people who grew up in the South Platte region and moved away after [...]

Web Site Promotes South Platte Area Rural Entrepreneurs

When sisters Betty Sayers and Nancy Herhahn graduated from Holdredge High School, educators and parents told them they could be more successful if they left Nebraska. And so they did.
Herhahn worked as a real estate company executive, living in Chicago and then San Diego. Sayers taught at a community college in Belcourt, N.D., then wrote [...]

West Central Nebraska Development District, Inc.

WCNDD is a quasi governmental organization committed to the economic development of West Central Nebraska which includes an 18 county region. Since 1974 WCNDD has awarded over 1.2 million dollars in loans to regional small businesses.
They provide financial, administrative and technical support to qualified business owners and create excutive training opportunities to address the needs [...]