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Owning the Cooperative Identity: USDA Celebrates National Co-op Month

October 30, 2023 James Wadsworth, Branch Chief, Cooperative Services at USDA Rural Development

This October USDA is celebrating National Cooperative Month, an observance that recognizes the cooperative model, its many influential uses, and how cooperatives benefit their members in numerous ways. There are at least 30,000 cooperatives in the United States providing more than $700 billion to...

Rural

Healthcare Partnership Provides Needed Nurses in Southwest Missouri

October 05, 2021 Cortney Bealer, USDA Rural Development Public Affairs

In 2013, Citizens Memorial Hospital (CMH) in Bolivar, Missouri experienced an overwhelming shortage of quality healthcare professionals. Simultaneously, its partner Bolivar Technical College (BTC) had outgrown its facility and had twice as many applicants as it had space for students.

Rural