Rebecca Anderson – Inspiring Women 2017 National Women’s History Month Honorees
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Rebecca Anderson
(1940
- Present)
Community and Economic Development Organizer
Rebecca “Becky” Anderson and a team of Western North Carolinians created HandMade in America. She was founding director of the organization, which established a craft-focused economy for 25 counties in the state. It became a cultural heritage model for National Heritage Areas, and a model for 16 state programs.
As Director of Handmade, Anderson coordinated major projects in tourism, small town revitalization, and education programs for school systems. She established The Center for Craft, Creativity and Design for the North Carolina University system. Her heritage tourism program began with Craft Heritage Trail guidebooks taking visitors through 23 counties to studios, galleries and local heritage sites. As a result craft maker incomes increased by 23%. Under Anderson’s leadership, Handmade received multiple honors including the Award of Merit for Sustainable Development from Renew America, Inc. In 2003 Worth Magazine ranked Handmade one of the top 24 arts non-profits in the U.S.
Handmade’s Small Town Revitalization Programs included 13 towns with populations under 1,000, and over 12 years achieved 177 facades restored; 212 buildings renovated; 1,350 jobs created; 349 new businesses; 83 business expansions; $9 million public money invested; $43 million private money invested; and 183,713 total volunteer hours provided in towns with no town managers or town planners. In partnership with the local community college and Resource Conservation Development District, Handmade established two craft incubators for ceramics and glass at a closed landfill using the methane gas from the landfills as the power source. An EPA LMOP feasibility study concluded the removal of methane gas was equal to planting 14,000 trees or removing 21,000 cars off the roads. Craft residents went on to establish 17 new businesses.
Prior to founding Handmade, Becky Anderson was also Director of: Community Development, Land of Sky Regional Planning Council, served as Director of Economic Development for the Ashville, NC Chamber of Commerce, and as Director of Economic Development for the city of Ashville. In 2000 Anderson was named among U.S. News and World Report’s list of the United States top 20 visionaries.
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