Community and Rural Development

TNECD Best Practices Series

• Working on up to 75 stories with metrics that capture your

best projects

• Show what worked, how you did it and how other

communities can replicate the work

Best Practices Uses

• Recognize successful community implementation, expertise,

leadership and collaboration

• Encourage replication and capacity building

• Support the innovative use and leveraging of TNECD

Programs and Grant Funding

• Build understanding of and support for TNECD Rural

Development Programs and Grant Funding

• Provide Local Officials and Economic Development leaders

with TNECD sponsored stories with metrics for use in local

communications and publicity, organization and board

development, partnerships, annual and grant reporting

Best Practices Categories

• Site Development

• ThreeStar

• Broadband Accessibility

• Downtown Development

• Entrepreneurship

• Workforce Development

• Tourism Enhancement

• Asset Enhancement

• Infrastructure

• Agriculture Enterprise

• ARC, CDBG and DRA

Select Tennessee – PEP

Unicoi County

Select Tennessee Site Certification

Morristown

Select Tennessee – PEP

White County

Select Tennessee – PEP/Site Development

Lawrence County

Select Tennessee – Site Development

Gibson County

Johnson County

JAM – Junior Appalachian Musicians

ThreeStar JAM

Scott County

Water Bottle Filling Stations

ThreeStar JAM

Clay County Comprehensive Community Plan/

Leadership Development

ThreeStar JAM

• Trousdale and Sumner Counties.

Broadband Accessibility

• TriCounty

Trousdale and Sumner Counties Tri-County Fiber Communications Award: $1.35M Current Status: • 395 Homes Passed • 160 Drops Once completed, the project will serve 545 locations

• BeCoffee County

• Ben Lomand Communications

• Pocahontas

• n Lomand Communications

Broadband Accessibility

• TriCounty

Coffee County - Ben Lomand Communications Pocahontas Residential Customers Served -602 Business Customers Served -26 Community Access Facilities - 1 Customer Adoption Events -6 Customer Services and Resources -8 TNECD Broadband Access Grant $1,054,824 Ben Lomand Communications LLC Match $ 1,084,824 USDA Rural Development Community Connect Grant $1,558,148 Ben Lomand Communications LLC Match $274,967 TOTAL PROJECT FUNDING $3,972,763*

Martin Tennessee

GIG City Broadband

Broadband Accessibility JAM

Historic Lebanon Main Street

Façade Improvement/Entrepreneur Development

Tennessee Main Street

Development

JAM

Brownsville Main Street

Façade Improvement/Entrepreneur Development

Tennessee Main Street

Downtown Development JAM

Smithville

Façade Improvements

Tennessee Downtowns

JAM

Humboldt

Marketing, Historic Building Signs and Strawberry Streetscape Art

Tennessee Downtowns

JAM

Jackson - TheLocal – Main Street Entrepreneur Grant

Unicoi – Mountain Harvest Kitchen Food Incubator – ARC POWER

Entrepreneurship

JAM

Sweetwater

Main Street Entrepreneur Grant – Business Development

Entrepreneurship

JAM

Morristown, Dyersburg, Savannah

Main Street Entrepreneur Grants -Co-Working and Training

Entrepreneurship

JAM

Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation Assistance Project Elizabethton, Carter and Unicoi Counties

Workforce Development JAM

Anderson County TCAT Knoxville – Anderson County Campus

Workforce Development JAM

TCAT Knoxville – Anderson County Campus

Franklin County Manufacturing Day

Workforce Development JAM

Workforce Development Gibson County -The Way to Win at

Work

Tourism Enhancement

Tourism Enhancement

Tourism Enhancement Grants

Dayton - FISHDAYTON

Claiborne County – Powell River Blueway

Asset Enhancement/Tourism

JAM

Waverly Wood - Pine Scragg Mill Development

Fayette County – Fayette Packing Company

Agriculture Enterprise

Infrastructure JAM

Grundy County – Silver Baits LLC

Bledsoe County – Edgefield Prime

Agriculture Enterprise/ARC

Infrastructure JAM

Unicoi County – Erwin Fiber Temple Hill and Bumpus Cove Broadband

ARC POWER - Broadband

Accessibility

JAM

Morgan County – Brushy Mountain Development

ARC/Asset Enhancement

Infrastructure

JAM

Manchester and Coffee County

Bonnaroo Festival – Water Infrastructure Improvements

ARC - Infrastructure JAM

TNECD Best Practices Resources

TNECD Rural Development Programs – FY2019

Program Descriptions and Staff Contacts

TNECD Best Practices Contacts:

Brooxie Carlton, Deputy Assistant Commissioner

Dr. Bridget Jones, Project Consultant

Rural Development Taskforce Website:

https://www.tn.gov/ruraltaskforce/case-studies-page.html

TNECD Best Practices Resources

TNECD Rural Development Programs – FY2019

Program Descriptions and Staff Contacts

TNECD Best Practices Contacts:

Brooxie Carlton, Deputy Assistant Commissioner

Dr. Bridget Jones, Project Consultant

Rural Development Taskforce Website:

https://www.tn.gov/ruraltaskforce/case-studies-page.html