Jean Grigsby
Jean Grigsby is a Maine-based marketing and public relations consultant. For more information about her work, visit https://thewriteapproach.com/about/.
Articles
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CIRD Learning Cohort Community Spotlight: Transforming a Former Jail into a Bright Future for McComb, MS
December 11, 2019Meet Calvin Phelps, a CIRD cohort community leader who is renovating a former community jail into an arts-centered space. By preserving the jail, the soon-to-be Pike School of Art will give new life to the community’s rich culture and history.
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Reflections on CIRD’s Cohort Summit in West Virginia
October 29, 2019A CIRD Learning Cohort Summit participant returns to her youthful stomping grounds ready to learn about rural design. What did she find out?
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First CIRD Cohort Gathers for Rural Design Summit in Thomas, West Virginia!
October 25, 2019The first CIRD Cohort Summit brought together 23 organizations from around the country to share design principles and learn from each other.
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A Common Theme: A thriving Main Street is critical for rural design
October 23, 2019A strong and vibrant Main Street is quintessential to the core of small-town America. It also proved to be a priority for many of this year’s CIRD Learning Cohort. Learn more about why cohort participants feel so passionately about improving Main Street in their communities.
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Rural design as an engine for improving quality of life
October 23, 2019Nearly half of the 2019 CIRD cohort communities identified downtown development as their primary design challenge.