b'Community &EconOmic DevElopmentBuilding Rural EconOmiesBRE made the entire video library available to partici-pants. Alongside the tablets, the team created printed handouts to supplement the material and shipped them The year 2020 tested the Building Rural Economies (BRE)with assorted office supplies.program in new ways. On-the-ground business coaching To stimulate interaction and dialog between attendees, with community members has been the programs the BRE team again got creative. They organized private centerpiece since its 2015 inception. Yet the pandemicsocial media groups as a place to discuss the days mod-made in-person training impossibleand virtual trainingules. And they created interactive feedback sessions that was difficult. Several Tribal reservations scheduled to hostparticipants could join by phone if needed.BREs Recharge Our Economy workshops enacted travel restrictions. Many communities rural nature made virtual trainings problematic, as internet connections were unre-liable to meet workshop series needs.BRE and RCAC team members rose to the occasion with creative solutions to conduct the workshops using both technology and practical methods. BRE trainers devel-oped a video curriculum that recreated the existing training while leveraging new technologies afforded by modern tablets. Using the workshops structure as a mod-el, they broke the training into several modules. The BRE team designed and reviewed the curriculum, which was filmed, and installed on 30 tablets that RCAC procured using funding from the Minority Business Development Agency, which also funded several BRE workshops.RCAC shipped the tablets to dozens of workshop at-tendees on the Fort Belknap Reservation, the Rocky Boy Reservation, and the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. 10 | RCAC Annual Report'