Entrepreneurship & Community (Nome Schoolhouse): A Rural Solution

Strengthen ND’s Rural Solutions are stories of successful rural initiatives, meant to inspire community doers and equip teams with new perspectives on often-faced problems.

“There are many school buildings across North Dakota that are empty due to mergers and closing. Good buildings; many have been maintained and some have been renovated for reuse. Many more have great potential for reuse. Traditionally, a group of residents work together to save their local school building, with several examples of reuse success across the state. Nome is a community where two nonresident entrepreneurs looked for a location to merge and grow their businesses and ended up saving the school building. It is an example of a solution for entrepreneurs, and importantly a solution for communities seeking to preserve their school building, by marketing their facility to outside entrepreneurship…(purchase to read more).