By Mila Besich-Lira | Copper Area News
Where do rural Arizona leaders go to learn about the latest trends in community and economic development? Where can these 
leaders go to network and find new resources to help their communities? There are plenty of conferences to attend, many with hefty price tags, many are a one size fits all approach to these important topics. Thanks to Local First Arizona, there is truly a conference for rural community leaders, “The Rural Policy Forum”.
Finally there is a conference that rural leaders can attend and bring back ideas that may not be too hard to implement in their communities. This year the Arizona Rural Policy Forum was hosted in the Copper Corridor at the Bullion Plaza Museum and Cultural Center in Miami. Many of our local governmental entities and non profit organizations from the Corridor were in attendance at the two day forum, last week.
