Tiffany Taylor-Minor

Rural LISC received a 2024 Excellence in Economic Development Silver Award from the International Economic Development Council (IEDC). The award was bestowed specifically for its work in the Regional or Cross-Border Partnership category impacting population sizes with less than 25,000 residents. LISC’s Vice President and Rural LISC Director Nadia Villagrán will accept the award at …

Rural LISC and Wells Fargo are celebrating the second anniversary of the Rural Connect Program, which provides funding and technical assistance to rural and native communities in South Dakota, Idaho and Wyoming. Hear from Rural Small Business owners and Business Development Organizations how Rural Connect has strengthened their financial health, small business ecosystems, access to …

Nadia Villagrán, Rural LISC’s new leader, brings a lifetime of rural experience, and a career’s worth of know-how in rural development, to the job (not to mention eight years in various roles on the team she now leads). In the following Q+A, she shares her vision for the work, her insights into the special challenges …