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The top tiers businesses and organizations can contribute.
The Delta Regional Authority is an 8 state, 252 county/parish state-federal partnership.
And we work on community and economic development with the goals of helping to create jobs,
build communities and improve lives.
What we do is that we take local community leaders and put them through an intense executive
training so that they can go back and put these ideas, these strategies, these tactics
to work in their own communities. And the McLean Institute and the University of Mississippi
is playing a key leadership role in the whole leadership program.
We have community development foundation
We've all come together in forming partnerships to engage these people in helping to raise
the quality of life in their home area so they've got about a year of training. They'll
be exposed to some of the best resources and people not only in the South but from all
over the nation.
We know that it's a huge challenge but we're thankful to have the resources of a research
one university to be able to deploy and advance the work of fighting poverty. It's a big responsibility
but I think that training leaders and giving them a tool to lift their own communities
is certainly a piece of the puzzle.