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Resiliency Is a System, Not a Moment.
A disaster preparedness platform built mid-storm in Hawaii. A dashboard with roots in a group chat in Puerto Rico. A statewide operations center shaped by Katrina and Rita. Three different approaches engaged the same four concrete steps any community can take to formalize disaster readiness—starting now. Alyssa Gossley's team was partway through launching Stay Open...
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Economic Development
Resiliency Is a System, Not a Moment
A disaster preparedness platform built mid-storm in Hawaii. A dashboard with roots in a group chat in Puerto Rico. A statewide operations center shaped by Katrina and Rita. Three different approaches engaged the same four concrete steps any community can take to formalize disaster readiness—starting now. Alyssa Gossley's team was partway through launching Stay Open...
Nov 02, 2026
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No Wrong Door: How Scott Asmus Is Building Nebraska’s Entrepreneurial Navigation System
Scott Asmus did not come to entrepreneurship with a traditional playbook. He came with an outsider’s eye, a deep belief in putting people first, and a determination to make Nebraska’s entrepreneurial ecosystem easier to navigate. Through SourceLink Nebraska, he is helping turn a maze of resources into a connected system built around real people, real needs, and real movement.
Sep 17, 2026
Economic Development
Be Prepared So Your Community Can Count on You
Financial disruption, cyberattacks, and infrastructure failures require the same planning as natural disasters. Water rescues on a flooded Main Street. Sandbags and boarded up storefronts on a Gulf coastline. Merchants sifting through shingles and plywood in the aftermath of 125-mile-per-hour tornadic winds. These are the media images we’re accustomed to seeing when natural disasters strike...
Aug 23, 2026
Entrepreneurship
Affiliate Summer Quarterly Conversation: Activating Untapped Entrepreneurial Potential in Your Community
Sometimes our most innovative entrepreneurs are people often overlooked and underestimated. They represent a stage of the entrepreneurial journey that happens before people identify themselves as entrepreneurs or appear in our ecosystem—before we have a name, an email address, or a business to support. According to Andrew Button, guest speaker at our June SourceLink Affiliate Quarterly Conversation, this "messy middle" contains more potential entrepreneurs than...
Jun 30, 2026
Field notes
Reflections from the IEDC Leadership Summit: Trust as infrastructure
Placeholder post seeded for the Home insights section. Notes from the IEDC Leadership Summit on why durable ecosystems treat trust the way cities treat roads. Replace this copy with the real article when the blog migrates.
Mar 11, 2026