• 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

Northeast Center Mission

Mission:

The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development exists to enhance the capacity of Land Grant Universities to foster regional prosperity through entrepreneurial and cluster-based innovation while assuring balanced use of natural resources in the northeastern United States. It carries out its mission in partnership with universities and other partners in the region.

About the Northeast:

The rural northeast faces a number of pressing policy issues. While some areas suffer from population loss, persistent poverty and economic stagnation, others are experiencing tremendous growth spillovers from urban centers. In this context, a key Northeast Center mission is to increase the capacity of residents in rural regions and communities to deal with those local problems that involve public sector decision-making. We achieve our mission by developing, integrating, synthesizing and delivering research-based knowledge to help trace out the anticipated and unanticipated consequences of alternative policy designs. 

Current Specific Priorities Include:

>>Helping communities on the rural-ruban fringe in making more rational land-use decisions through data-based     models and analyses.
>>Promoting community based agricultural development and small farm clusters through improved networking.
>>Understanding the community characteristics and public interventions that enhance or discourage     entrepreneurship.
>>Identifying new methods and policies to reduce persistent poverty.
>>Identifying the causes and consequences of youth out-migration (the brain drain), including the role of     government fragmentation.

 

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.