RFI Community Innovation Fellow | Greg Ptacek
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- [00:00:00.000]I'm Greg Ptacek with the City of Neligh.
- [00:00:01.568]I am the Economic Development Director for the city.
- [00:00:04.077]I'm passionate about rural because of the great quality
- [00:00:06.437]of life that we have in rural Nebraska and all of rural.
- [00:00:09.677]I think rural Nebraska really is a place
- [00:00:11.779]where you can make a difference, you can have an impact,
- [00:00:15.576]and you can build some longstanding relationships.
- [00:00:18.667]In my position as Economic Developer for the City of Neligh
- [00:00:21.228]I try to help the City of Neligh gain businesses,
- [00:00:25.640]help transition people into some positions,
- [00:00:29.040]helping develop workforce in the City of Neligh.
- [00:00:31.909]I think the state of Nebraska gains a lot of its strength
- [00:00:35.309]from rural areas and I think that's why you've seen
- [00:00:38.771]an investment by the University of Nebraska
- [00:00:41.160]into the Rural Futures Institute to make sure
- [00:00:43.027]that rural places do matter
- [00:00:44.971]and that they are getting the representation
- [00:00:46.629]and the outreach from the university
- [00:00:48.587]that will keep rural places alive for generations to come.
- [00:00:53.269]Becoming an RFI fellow has just been a huge honor for me.
- [00:00:56.941]I think I'm one of a handful
- [00:00:59.141]that are an actual boots on the ground community fellow
- [00:01:02.579]and to be selected for that has just been a huge honor
- [00:01:06.278]knowing that I can then work
- [00:01:08.899]to leverage the university system to help rural Nebraska
- [00:01:13.009]has just been a huge honor.
- [00:01:14.779]The Rural Futures Institute has really helped
- [00:01:16.849]move the needle forward for rural communities
- [00:01:20.227]by being a outreach above and beyond what extension
- [00:01:23.569]has done but being the outreach
- [00:01:25.286]that allows rural communities, such as Neligh,
- [00:01:29.019]to actually leverage the University of Nebraska.
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