• Community Development
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Rural Entrepreneurship Listening Sessions
  • eXtension
  • Northeast Key Contacts
  • Access eNonProfit Tutorial
  • Business Retention & Expansion (BR&E)
• Land Use
  • TALUC
  • Land Use Toolbox
  • NEELUN Key Contacts
  • 2003 Land Use Conference
  • Land Use in the Northeast U.S.
  • GIS in Your Community
  • Consortium for Atlantic Regional Assessment (CARA)
• Small Farms Industry Clusters
  • National Research Initiative (NRI) Project
  • Committee Members
• Poverty
  • 2005 Poverty Conference
  • Poverty Data
  • Big Boxes
• Other
  • Diversity
  • eCommerce
  • Energy
  • Social Capital Resources
  • Issue Briefs: Population Change and Rural Society
  • Tourism

The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development
The Pennsylvania State University
7 Armsby Building, University Park PA 16802-5602
814/863-4656(phone); 814/863-0586(fax)
Please send questions and comments to:
nercrd@psu.edu

Community Support for Entrepreneurship

Resources

Entrepreneurship Across Kentucky, Tom Lyons. The Appalachian Kentucky region has been the focus of federal attention for over thirty years. A number of significant programs operate to create an entrepreneurial region in eastern Kentucky.

Information on the the E4 project is available at: http://e4coalition.com/blog/ or http://e4coalition.com/blog/?p=1

The project/site framework for Communities of Practice will be unveiled at NACDEP: http://www.nacdep.net/confs/2007/Conference.htm

Rupri's Energizing Entrepreneurs: http://www.energizingentrepreneurs.org

Kauffman research portal: http://research.kauffman.org/cwp/appmanager/research/researchDesktop

Building Entrepreneurial Communities in Oklahoma "Overview" , Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, Oklahoma State University and Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Oklahoma City Branch

About the "Entrepreneurship and Their Communities" eXtension Initiative

Gauging a Region's Entrepreneurial Potential by Sarah Low, Jason Henderson, and Stephan Weiler

The Place-Based Structural Determinants and Effects of Self-Employment, Final Report to the Kauffman Foundation by Stephan J. Goetz

Energizing Entrepreneurs in America's Rural Communities by Karen A. Dabson

Mapping Rural Entrepreneurship, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

The Big Picture Context for Rural Entrepreneurship by Brian Dabson

Preserving Rural Character Through Agriculture: A Resource Kit For Planners, New Hampshire Coalition for Sustaining Agriculture

Market Planning or Value- AddedAgricultural Products by Lynda Brushett and Gregory Franklin

Contact Information

The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development is located at the Pennsylvania State University and collaborates with land grant institutions in the northeast U.S.