The W. K. Kellogg Foundation’s Managing Information with Rural America(MIRA) grant-making program attempts to use collaborative community development techniques to make electronic communications and information technology more readily accessible. Funding supports coalitions of community groups trying to develop communications infrastructure, as well as social services, education programs, micro-business development, and policy analysis.
MIRA has made a wide range of education and development programs possible. In Nebraska’s Prairie Visions project, high school students help senior centers create an email systems for members. The Civil Rights Forum on Communications Policy monitors discrimination in access to media and technology. The DreamTree Project offers computer and vocational training to youths in a transitional living program, as well as emergency shelter services for families in New Mexico. MIRA’s flexibility allows it to assist a variety of programs, giving local groups the freedom to explore creative solutions to the problems facing their communities.
The MIRA project has been running successfully for ten years. More recently, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation has funded Entrepreneurship Development Systems in Rural America, a program that nurtured economic growth by supporting collaborative business development in key regions.
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. Historian Shae Davidson's research interests include public policy and the relationship between culture and civil society. His publications range from articles on industrial history to absurdist poetry.
