• Community Development
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  • 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

Youth 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.

To view abstracts from past NACDEP Conference presentations that relate to Youth Entrepreneurship please see: http://nacdep.net/confs/confs.htm .

An impressive group of youth programming projects can be found on the University of Connecticut's Extension site
at: http://www.extension.uconn.edu/

ESI: EntrepreneurShip Investigation is truly a pioneer in the field of youth entrepreneurship education. More information is available at: http://4h.unl.edu/esi/whatisit.html

"Get the Buzz on Biz!" The 2nd edition of NxLevel's youth entrepreneur curriculum. Information is available at: http://www.nxlevel.org/image/123800_c_sU128881_s_i190650/y_flyer.pdf

The University of MaIne Cooperative Extension's Small & Home Based Business Virtual Resource Library can be accessed at: http://www.umext.maine.edu/hbbsite/html/home.htm

Information on the Mini-Society, an experience-based instructional system targeted primarily for teaching entrepreneurship, economics, and citizenship concepts to students ages 8 to 12 is available at:
http://www.mini-society.com/secure/About-MS.asp

Information on NC REAL can be found at: http://www.ncreal.org/

Youth Entrepreneurship projects funded by CSREES: http://www.nercrd.psu.edu/Entrepreneurship/CSREES.Funded.Projects.pdf

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.