TRIF Welcomes New Sponsors
Citibank
Texas Workforce Commission
ACCION Texas
Farm Credit Bank of Texas
Northwest Texas SBDC Regional Network
Texas Center for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development – TexCEED
TRIF’s Fall Series is Different … Fewer Forums – Same Great Content PLUS a Workshop**
For the full Fall schedule, with all the trimmings, click here!
Everybody wants to drive less, so we are offering two Fall Forums instead of the usual three. But we are expanding each Forum to include an additional speaker or panel … so you get the same high-quality program in two trips instead of three. And we offer our first hands-on, skills development workshop!
October 15: Higher Energy Costs: Will Rural Texas Sink or Soar? Hear from three experts with responses from a panel of local leaders in diverse institutions.
November 18: The Legislature is Coming – Should We Hide or Celebrate? Outstanding rural legislators talk about the 81st Legislature that convenes in January ’09.
**December 2 in Fredericksburg: Clues to Rural Community Survival! TRIF offers an exclusive workshop from the Heartland Center for Leadership Development. Register for the Clues to Rural Community Survival Workshop!
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?
