SDSU Extension Community Development Team Offering Marketing Hometown America Program
David Olson
In honor of David Olson, the SDSU Extension Community Development Team will be offering their Marketing Hometown America Program at a discounted fee. David Olson started working for SDSU Extension as a Community Coach for the Horizons Project in 2006 and was named the Community Development Program Director in 2011.
David Olson passed away from cancer on February 12, 2016, he was diagnosed in May of 2015 and was still working at the time of his death. He quickly made his impact, providing mentorship and thoughtful leadership, while intersecting his own brand of humor and grace, to the projects and the community members he worked with.
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He quickly established himself as a community capacity builder – engaging communities in gaining skills that empowered their ability to identify, achieve and sustain THEIR goals and objectives. David had this magnetic personality that put people at ease. He was a man of honor, integrity, loyalty and grace. SDSU Extension has lost an accomplished professional, valued colleague and a true friend. We will never be able to replace David, but we are committed to continuing his work and his legacy. As a part of David Olson’s legacy the Community Development Team would like to offer to any rural community in South Dakota the opportunity to participate in the Marketing Hometown America program at a discounted fee. Marketing Hometown America empowers communities to create a vision to grow. Designed as a tool to create dialogue that moves toward action, it can be the spark to
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