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PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward Wins Impact Award from NVCA & Venture Forward 
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PRESS RELEASE: Arkansas State Legislature Honors Rural Students at rootEd Capitol Day
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Medical Residency Expansion Could Add $465 Million to Arkansas Economy, According to New Heartland Forward Report
  • Health and Wellness
2024 Year In Review
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PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward Research Shows Outdoor Recreation Contributes $7.3 Billion to Arkansas Economy and Supports 68,000 Jobs
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  • Regional Competitiveness
Press Release: The U.S. Talent Map is Shifting—and Heartland Cities Are on the Rise
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PRESS RELEASE: AI and Advanced Manufacturing are Driving America’s “Most Dynamic Metropolitans”
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Heartland Forward Announces Strategic Leadership Changes and $500 Million Economic Impact Goal by 2030
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PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward Expands Telehealth Access Initiative to Oklahoma
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PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward Report Shows STEM Education Can Add$3.9 Billion and 19,000 Jobs to Arkansas Economy
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PRESS RELEASE: Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center Releases New Research on Models of Equitable Entrepreneurship Across the United States
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PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward Announces Initiative to Expand Telehealth Access in Arkansas and Oklahoma
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PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward Announces Krista Cupp as Vice President of Development
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Human Capital & Workforce Development with rootEd Arkansas
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PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward Launches rootEd Arkansas to Drive Economic Growth Through Rural Education and Workforce Development
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PRESS RELEASE: Angie Cooper of Heartland Forward Appointed to National AI Advisory Committee
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PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward Releases First-of-its-Kind Poll on AI Sentiment Across the Heartland
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PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward Releases 2024 "Most Dynamic Micropolitans" Report, Highlights Resilience and Growth in America’s Small Cities
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PRESS RELEASE: Idea Accelerator Program expands statewide in Alabama
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PRESS RELEASE: Idea Accelerator Program expands statewide in Oklahoma
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PRESS RELEASE: Idea Accelerator Program expands statewide in Arkansas
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Improving Access to Mental Health Care in the Heartland
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Harnessing AI in the heartland
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PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward Launches New Broadband Jobs Board to Boost Career & Training Opportunities in Arkansas
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Press Release: Heartland Forward Names J.T. Geren as New Director of Strategic Communications 
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Heartland Forward Releases a Series of Resources to Support Mothers
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PRESS RELEASE - Heartland Forward Announces New Senior Fellow: Cara Osborne
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PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward Releases New Research and Action Plan to Help Address Maternal Health
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Press Release: Most Dynamic Metropolitans Report Shows Advanced Manufacturing and Energy Sectors as Drivers for Economic Improvement
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Heartland Forward Releases Entrepreneurial Policy Recommendations
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Reflecting on Black History Month at Heartland Forward
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2023 Year In Review
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Significant opportunity exists in America’s heartland
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Press Release: At Heartland Summit, Five Entrepreneurs Awarded Funding and Spot in New Program to Help Scale Their Early-Stage Businesses
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PRESS RELEASE: CINCINNATI, OMAHA AND OXFORD FEATURED AS SECRET SAUCE COMMUNITIES AT 2023 HEARTLAND SUMMIT
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PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward Convenes Nonpartisan Group of State Legislators and Government Officials to Announce the Launch of the Heartland Health Caucus
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PRESS RELEASE: Applications Now Open for Detroit Residents to Turn Their New Business Ideas into Reality Through Builders + Backers Idea Accelerator Powered by Heartland Forward
PRESS RELEASE: Katie Milligan of Heartland Forward Announced as New Obama Foundation United States Leader
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PRESS RELEASE: WINTER COHORT CLOSES WITH NEARLY 100 BUILDERS GETTING $400,000 IN FUNDING TO TEST IDEAS
Press Release: Applications Now Open Across the Heartland for Residents to Turn New Business Ideas into Reality Through Idea Accelerator Program
Bloomberg: Silicon Valley Ranked as Top US Metro Area Before SVB Collapsed
Heartland Patients Want to Hear From Nurses
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The 2022 Giving Guide is Here!
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Heartland Forward and Builders + Backers Award Over $1M to Aspiring Entrepreneurs
Just Published: Health Care Access in the Heartland
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Applications Are Open For Winter 2023 Idea Accelerator Cohort
Are you an entrepreneur who would like to help kick-start economic growth in West Tennessee?
Business Record (Iowa): Would a $4/hour pay increase for child care workers reduce attrition rates in the industry? Yes, according to one experiment in Iowa City
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Ross DeVol: Heartland Must Embrace Entrepreneurship in a Post-COVID Economy | TEDxFargo
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Heartland Forward Receives Rebuilding Better Grant to Support Entrepreneurship in the Heartland
Applications are now Open for Summer 2022 Idea Accelerator Cohort
Fast Company recognizes the American Connection Corps on their annual list of World Changing Ideas
Low-cost tech hubs are emerging as America’s most dynamic cities
Plant.Sip.Vibe in downtown Tulsa
Breaking the Silence: Local author creates podcast to help abuse victims, survivors
How the Next Wave of Tech Hubs can be More Inclusive
Broadband Breakfast (Opportunity Broadband)
The Changing Geography of U.S. Talent
Illinois Communities Getting Broadband Infrastructure Assistance
Focus on a Fellow: Carly Fitz
Ten Oxford Entrepreneurs begin National Accelerator Program
Press Release: Applications Now Open For Iowa City Residents To Turn Ideas Into Reality Through Idea Accelerator Program
THE HILL: For COVID recovery, the nation should take lessons from the heartland
AXIOS: "Pebble" grants boost entrepreneurs in 20 states
Austin Next: Research Speaks with Ross Devol CEO of Heartland Forward Foundation
City Journal: Big D Is a Big Deal
NWA Democrat Gazette: REX NELSON: A plan for Arkansas
Business Insider:These 8 jobs that don't require a college degree could drive middle class wealth in America's heartland
Mobilizing Libraries in the Fight to Close the Digital Divide
Axios: How to lift America's heartland into the middle class
Axios: Heartland Forward report offers six strategies to boost Arkansas economy
MarketWatch: New Strategy Positions Arkansas Economy for Rebound and Expansion Post-Pandemic
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: Innovation advised for state recovery
Yahoo!: Heartland Forward report offers six strategies to boost Arkansas economy
Times Record: Arkansas Economic Recovery Strategy report seeks to guide Arkansas in economic endeavors
Newsweek: The Right and Left Are Both Wrong on Immigration. Here's What We Need | Opinion
Axios: Arkansas campaign aims to get more people discounted internet
NPR Illinois: FCC Temporarily Offering Up To $50 A Month For Low-Income Americans To Access Internet
News 5: New federal program offering Ohioans broadband internet service discount and perks, officials struggling with sign-ups
News Channel 11: Heartland Forward, regional development organizations partner to offer internet and tech to disconnected Tennesseans
Tulsa World: Aspiring Tulsa entrepreneurs selected for idea accelerator program; participants receive $5,000 in support
KMTV News Now Omaha: Nebraska immigrant and refugee population on the rise
Yahoo: How addressing language barriers can alleviate Iowa's worker shortage
Axios: How immigration can power the future of America's heartland
Des Moines Register:Study: Des Moines' immigrant population among fastest-growing in the U.S.
Bloomberg:American Heartland Cities Are the Fast-Growing Immigration Hubs
Episode 7: Ross DeVol on Innovation in the Heartland
Who can apply for Heartland Forward's Idea Accelerator?
Newgeography: America's Post-Pandemic Geography
The New York Times: Can the Biden Agenda Fix Middle America’s Deepest Problem?
Press Release: Tulsa Among the First Cities in the Nation to Host Idea Accelerator that Funds Local Problem Solvers
Press Release: Oxford Among the First Cities in the Nation to Host Idea Accelerator that Funds local Problem Solvers
FastCompany: Land O'Lakes is rallying young people to return to their hometown to build better broadband
SupplyChainDive: Supply chains do the math on reshoring's pros and cons
Times of Entrepreneurship: 20 Fastest-Rising Ecosystems In A Remote World
LA Times: Why more Americans should leave home and move to other states
How Remote Work Is Reshaping America’s Urban Geography
The Urban Prairie
Three Small Cities That Are Thriving Despite the Pandemic
The PPP Failed Minority-Led Businesses. 3 Ideas for What Could Work Instead
Exclusive: How the high-tech economy is expanding
Talk Business and Politics
The key to recovery
Winning Streak of Big Cities Fades With 2020 Crises
Young firms can accelerate economic growth post COVID-19
Arizonans set record for expanded jobless benefit claims as program's expiration looms
How 2020 Will Reshape Cities
Two Midwestern cities. Two local billionaires (Koch and Buffett). Which one can boost prosperity?
Entrepreneurs are key to Tennessee's economic recovery | Opinion
Twenty Top Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Across America
Report from Economic Renewal Institute Hails Oxford-UM Relationship
Nearly half of Colorado households have lost income because of pandemic
The new geography of America, post-coronavirus
Nevada economy’s overreliance on tourism is taking a toll
The Coronavirus Is Changing the Future of Home, Work, and Life
Texas reeling into recession from double blows of coronavirus and oil slump, Comptroller Glenn Hegar says
Des Moines is 'flyover country' no more: Millennials choose Heartland
Publisher: Put young talent at the Baton Rouge power table
Talent May Be Shifting Away From Superstar Cities