Dakota Resources

Through capacity building programs, dakota resources helps rural communities thrive through innovative processes, tools, training, and resources. The development services programs are designed to enhance rural community and economic development leadership development. The dakota resources learning network is designed to help rural economic development leaders connect and engage with one another in order to learn faster together about topics that matter most to rural economic and community development, including engaging people, supporting housing development, supporting local businesses and managing local economic development organizations. The learning network includes: - live/on-demand webinars - in-person peer-to-peer learning conferences - weekly online interactive stories and best practices - open-source toolkits and resource library our community coaching program helps rural community and economic development leaders to level up their skills to empower local people and organizations to lead action. On-demand coaching services provide access to capacity-building tools and processes.

Dakota resources owns 51% of dakotas america, llc, which was formed through a joint venture solely for the purpose of applying for allocations of new markets tax credits (nmtc) from the us department of treasury cdfi fund. Dakotas america, llc is a rural community development entity (cde) with a national service area. The mission is to provide nmtc investment to the most isolated, distressed and underserved areas of the united states. Dakota resources has a management agreement in place to manage dakotas america through december 31, 2024. Since inception, dakotas america has been awarded seven allocations of authority to issue $460,000,000 of qualified equity investments (qei).