TRIF Welcomes New Sponsors

Trust Financial

Texas Workforce Commission

Citibank

What is TRIF?

TRIF is a series of forums, held approximately once every 6-8 weeks. Each forum features noted speakers with outstanding expertise in rural development and practitioners with firsthand knowledge of successful programs and practices.

TRIF brings firsthand knowledge of the most innovative and successful rural development projects in the nation to YOU – the business, civic, social, educational and cultural leaders of Texas’ small cities, towns and rural regions. And we bring it from the people who are making it happen in their home towns from coast to coast.

TRIF speakers will present a mix of theory and practice, but it is all about action and improvement at home, on the ground – not pie-in-the-sky! We are supported by a cast of all-star sponsors who insist on keeping it real!

As an added benefit, through TRIF you become part of a network of like-minded innovators from across rural (and urban) Texas. TRIF is your opportunity to get together with real people who make things happen!

Why?

The 2008 Spring Series of Forums continues on May 22 at the Riverside Conference Center in Bastrop …

Making State Rural Policy
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State Representative Robby Cook and ORCA Chair Wallace Klussman top off the final Spring Forum. We begin with Stan Gruszynski , Co-Director of Wisconsin’s Future of Farming and Rural Life project; Bobby Gierisch will explain how rural policy is made in states like North Carolina, Maryland, Illinois and Minnesota. Bobby is TRIF Coordinator and Director of State Policy Programs for the Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI).

Wallace Klussman has served on the governing board of the Office of Rural Community Affairs since 2001 and was recently made Chair of the board. Robby Cook has served ten years in the Texas House and is currently Chair of the Legislative Rural Caucus. Klussman and Cook will discuss obstacles and opportunities for rural policy in Texas.

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