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PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Summit 2025 Explored Bold Themes and Set the Stage for Economic Success Across the Heartland

Harnessing AI in the Heartland—Heartland Summit Video

PRESS RELEASE: Chattanooga, Fargo and Wichita Recognized at 2025 Heartland Summit as Secret Sauce Communities

PRESS RELEASE: rootEd Arkansas Students Announce Postsecondary Plans at Heartland Forward's Decision Day

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward Launches Maternal and Child Health Center to Improve Health Outcomes in the Heartland

PRESS RELEASE: New STEM-Focused Higher Education Institution Planned for Bentonville

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward and Stemuli Launch First-of-Its-Kind AI Training Platform in the Heartland

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Gen Z Adopting AI Quickly, but Schools and Workplaces Lag Behind

Heartland Forward, Gallup and Walton Family Foundation Gen Z AI Poll

Governors Growing Entrepreneurship

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward Wins Impact Award from NVCA & Venture Forward

PRESS RELEASE: Arkansas State Legislature Honors Rural Students at rootEd Capitol Day

Medical Residency Expansion Could Add $465 Million to Arkansas Economy, According to New Heartland Forward Report

2024 Year In Review

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward Research Shows Outdoor Recreation Contributes $7.3 Billion to Arkansas Economy and Supports 68,000 Jobs

Press Release: The U.S. Talent Map is Shifting—and Heartland Cities Are on the Rise

PRESS RELEASE: AI and Advanced Manufacturing are Driving America’s “Most Dynamic Metropolitans”

Heartland Forward Announces Strategic Leadership Changes and $500 Million Economic Impact Goal by 2030

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward Expands Telehealth Access Initiative to Oklahoma

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward Report Shows STEM Education Can Add$3.9 Billion and 19,000 Jobs to Arkansas Economy

PRESS RELEASE: Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center Releases New Research on Models of Equitable Entrepreneurship Across the United States

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward Announces Initiative to Expand Telehealth Access in Arkansas and Oklahoma

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward Announces Krista Cupp as Vice President of Development

Human Capital & Workforce Development with rootEd Arkansas

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward Launches rootEd Arkansas to Drive Economic Growth Through Rural Education and Workforce Development

PRESS RELEASE: Angie Cooper of Heartland Forward Appointed to National AI Advisory Committee

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward Releases First-of-its-Kind Poll on AI Sentiment Across the Heartland

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward Releases 2024 "Most Dynamic Micropolitans" Report, Highlights Resilience and Growth in America’s Small Cities

PRESS RELEASE: Idea Accelerator Program expands statewide in Alabama

PRESS RELEASE: Idea Accelerator Program expands statewide in Oklahoma

PRESS RELEASE: Idea Accelerator Program expands statewide in Arkansas

Improving Access to Mental Health Care in the Heartland

Harnessing AI in the heartland

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward Launches New Broadband Jobs Board to Boost Career & Training Opportunities in Arkansas

Press Release: Heartland Forward Names J.T. Geren as New Director of Strategic Communications

Heartland Forward Releases a Series of Resources to Support Mothers

PRESS RELEASE - Heartland Forward Announces New Senior Fellow: Cara Osborne

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward Releases New Research and Action Plan to Help Address Maternal Health

Press Release: Most Dynamic Metropolitans Report Shows Advanced Manufacturing and Energy Sectors as Drivers for Economic Improvement

Heartland Forward Releases Entrepreneurial Policy Recommendations

Reflecting on Black History Month at Heartland Forward

2023 Year In Review

Significant opportunity exists in America’s heartland

Press Release: At Heartland Summit, Five Entrepreneurs Awarded Funding and Spot in New Program to Help Scale Their Early-Stage Businesses

PRESS RELEASE: CINCINNATI, OMAHA AND OXFORD FEATURED AS SECRET SAUCE COMMUNITIES AT 2023 HEARTLAND SUMMIT

PRESS RELEASE: Heartland Forward Convenes Nonpartisan Group of State Legislators and Government Officials to Announce the Launch of the Heartland Health Caucus

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

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

The 2022 Giving Guide is Here!

Heartland Forward and Builders + Backers Award Over $1M to Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Just Published: Health Care Access in the Heartland

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

Ross DeVol: Heartland Must Embrace Entrepreneurship in a Post-COVID Economy | TEDxFargo

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