by Jake Cantrell | Aug 27, 2024 | Digital Economy, Economic Development
By: Sunnie Dawn Baker Cassie Burrows knows what it’s like to need a new purpose and a new path. Her mother had been diagnosed with cancer and Burrows used her family medical leave to stay home and take care of her. Unfortunately, after she exhausted her leave, the...
by Ada Jobs | Aug 16, 2024 | Digital Economy, Economic Development
By: Sunnie Dawn Baker As part of the Conduit Initiative’s strategy to encourage a technology and innovation-based economy, the Ada Jobs Foundation (AJF) partnered with the Chickasaw Nation, the Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Center, and the Oka’ Institute to...
by Jessika Leatherbury | Feb 7, 2023 | Digital Economy, Economic Development
What is it? The Ada Jobs Foundation was highlighted in a recent case study by the Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group. This is the second case study in their What’s Working in Rural series which “examines how rural communities with limited staffing and...
by Jessika Leatherbury | Jul 15, 2022 | Digital Economy, Economic Development
By: Sunnie Dawn Baker Selena Galbreaith showing off a basic catapult The high school cafeteria bustled with approximately thirty students around age five, and the air buzzed with excitement as they sent brightly colored fuzzy pompoms soaring across their tables. The...
by Jessika Leatherbury | Jul 8, 2022 | Economic Development
By: Sunnie Dawn Baker Many of us learned about “ecosystems” when we were in elementary school. We were taught that an ecosystem was an area where living and non-living things interact, or, as the National Geographic Society defines it, “A geographic area where plants,...
by Jessika Leatherbury | Jul 1, 2022 | Strategic Action Teams
By: Sunnie Dawn Baker When the Ada Jobs Foundation updated their Economic Development Strategic Plan in 2020, they realized they didn’t want it to be a strategy to be a document that would simply sit on a shelf. Instead, they wanted to take a more dynamic approach,...
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