Blue Compass Launches HarvestInitiative.com!

Can a website bring help to the poorest county in the United States? Partnering with the Harvest Initiative, our latest project launches an online presence devoted to the people of the Crow Creek reservation in South Dakota.

 

Business executive, Barry Griswell (former Chairman and CEO of Principal Financial Group) has taken several trips to the Crow Creek reservation to review tribal needs and resources. Since his various surveys of Crow Creek, Griswell has donated several gifts to the community, particularly to the Boys and Girls Clubs. From his own childhood experience attending a Boys & Girls Club, Griswell understands the importance of community support on young, impressionable and hopeless children.

 

With all that Griswell had already done for the community of Crow Creek, he still felt a higher calling. Griswell wanted to provide a solution which would enable tribal members to improve conditions on the reservation and promote sustainable economic growth for Buffalo County.

 

Finding other interested parties, Griswell collaborated with Dustin Miller and Jason Yates, two recent Drake University law graduates, and Michael Griswell, the research coordinator for the project, to form The Harvest Initiative - an organization that seeks to produce sustainable economic growth within the poorest county in the U.S.

 

After developing an economic plan to help encourage Crow Creek, The Harvest Initiative realized they would need people on the ground to help spur the plan into action. In the beginning of August 2008, Miller and Yates moved their families to South Dakota to work for The Harvest Initiative on the Crow Creek Reservation.

 

Looking for a low maintenance website that allows flexibility and easy updatability but provides a high-end design and a powerful online presence, Griswell, Yates, and Miller came to Blue Compass. The new website provides information about the Crow Creek reservation and The Harvest Initiatives services for the community, and accepts online donations.

 

Check out the website and learn more about our new partner at harvestinitiative.org