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Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Montana was founded in 1968 to provide for the credit needs of residents across Montana and Wyoming. Now known as Rural Dynamics, the organization provides programs and establishes partnerships to help youth, individuals, and families achieve economic independence. Our vision is to develop and maintain a new generation of financially educated and responsible consumers. We
are a private, nonprofit corporation, dedicated to providing confidential and professional counseling in aiding and rehabilitating financially distressed families, and individuals regardless of race, creed, color, sex, social position, or financial status, and in fostering community. We provide consumer education on money management and the intelligent use of credit.
In recent months, as we refined our services and expanded into new regions, we recognized that credit counseling, while a crucial step in the road to achieving a full and rewarding life in our communities, was only the first step. The Northern Plains are a unique collection of regions bound by a set of common experiences that requires a special awareness of the values, strengths, and challenges of rural communities.
Through this document we hope to spark greater collective efforts on behalf of our Northern Plains region. For more information about our organization, please visit our website at www.RuralDynamics.org
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
The W.K Kellogg Foundation believes their role is “to help people help themselves" through the practical application of knowledge and resources to improve their quality of life and that of future generations. This belief and their long tradition of service and philanthropy in rural America make the W.K Kellogg foundation a natural partner for the Northern Plains Initiative. Their rural development program funds collaborative, comprehensive, and inclusive approaches to rural economic development that emphasize community visioning, leadership development, entrepreneurship development, and delivery of human, social, and economic services. Without this partnership, the Plains Talk and Plains Talk II processes would not have been possible.