Research Areas
Columbia Basin residents and community leaders require up-to-date and reliable information to make informed decisions about the futures of their communities. The Columbia Basin Rural Development Institute provides such information.
The institute is a partnership between Columbia Basin Trust and Selkirk College. It brought together two assets: the Trust’s State of the Basin Initiative, which launched in 2008 with the first Basin-wide indicator report and website, and Selkirk’s Regional Innovation Chair in Rural Economic Development, which has collected data and performed research and analysis related to the regional economy since 2006.
