The Virginia Rural Center is delighted to present and invite you to the “Rural Broadband Roundtable Breakfast & Live Demonstration.” Thursday, August 16, 2018 9 - 11 a.m. This unique opportunity will showcase innovative broadband strategies. Prince George County Wellness Center 11033 Prince George Drive Disputanta, VA 23842 RSVP by Friday, August 10. A complimentary “country breakfast” will be available. Reserve your seat today! Contact Kristie Helmick Proctor,

Kristie Helmick Proctor, Executive Director for the Center for Rural Virginia, was featured in the Richmond Times-Dispatch "Decision Maker" column today, helping spread the word about the mission to grow rural Virginia. ”It is my hope that I will make a real difference to ensure that rural Virginia is a place where people want to live, work, play and raise their families," Helmick Proctor told the Richmond-based paper. To read the complete column, go here.

Earlier this week, the Treasury Department shared the final round of Opportunity Zone designations, effectively completing the map of communities that are eligible to receive investment under the policy in the next decade, the Economic Innovation Group (EIG) reported. "In one of the country’s boldest recent experiments in federalism, Congress called on the chief executives of every state and territory to nominate up to a quarter of the low-income communities in their jurisdic

Farmville, Va. – State, local and federal officials convened in Farmville on June 5 for a Virginia Rural Housing Roundtable luncheon designed to spark dialog around affordability, availability and other issues affecting rural housing across the Commonwealth. More than 70 people participated in the event, which was hosted by the Virginia Rural Center and held on the campus of Longwood University. “Like any complex policy issue, rural housing touches on all sorts of other compl