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1. Changing the face of rural entrepreneurship
Karen Dabson and Welthy Soni-Myers

2. View from the states: Tools for encouraging entrepreneurship
Mary Niebling, Michael Quinn, and Brian Dancause

3. The arts as community catalyst: The role of the arts in the creation of entrepreneur-friendly communities
Andrea Stander, Michele Bailey, Matt Bucy, Heidi Krantz, Chuck Turley, and Lisa Mase

4. Community Progress Initiative—Rebuilding a community in “rapid” time: A model of community engagement to create vibrant communities
Connie Loden and David Beurle

5. Getting farmers onto the land and keeping them there: Models, opportunities, and lessons learned
Lisa Chase, Sharon Fialco, Karen Fortin, Beth Kennett, Lindsey Ketchel, and Diane Kuehn

6. Part 1. A business facilitation program for northeastern Vermont
William McMaster and Betsy Sylvester

Part 2. Entrepreneurship and small business survival in the Northeast: The case of West Virginia
Doolarie Singh-Knights and Dennis K. Smith

7. The informal economy: Making it in rural America
Elaine Edgcomb, Mary Niebling, and Eloise Vitelli

8. Micro business in Vermont: Lessons learned from three micro business development program evaluations
Michele Cranwell Schmidt and Jane Kolodinsky

9. Participatory modeling as a tool for planning and consensus-building
Lisa Chase and Roelof Boumans

10. Designing a microenterprise program for the food sector
Brian Norder

11. Rural community development:
Part 1. Home Town Competitiveness and RutBusters Project
Shanna Ratner

Part 2. RutBusters Project
Melissa Ballard, Tara Kelly, India Burnett Farmer, and Nancy Burzon

12. Preparing e-commerce outreach for agricultural entrepreneurs
Will Sawyer and Fred Schmidt

13. Farm viability: The next step
A. Edward Staehr, Ethan Parke, Allen Matthews, and Rick LeVitre

14. Ecopreneurship in rural America: Strategies for creating environmental enterprises
Frank Higdon

15. Assessing municipal infrastructure to cut costs and protect the environment
Shanna Ratner

16. Creating an entrepreneurial state: Coordinating small business networking and association activities
Emily Kaminsky and Linda Ingold

17. Potential for expanded agriculture in the Northeast: Assessing trade-offs between biofuels production and animal agriculture
Nelson Bills and Michael Baker

18. Indicators for documenting the impacts of food and agriculture-based entrepreneurship in the context of community
Heidi Mouillesseaux-Kunzman

19. Taste of Success: Can on-line technology bring businesses together in a community of learning and provide a forum for business-to-business networking?
Eloise Vitelli and John Massaua

20. Understanding federal SBIR/STTR programs: What it takes for small businesses to win funding for high risk technology development
Mark Blanchard and Peter McHenry

21. Strengthening local economies through cooperative and employee ownership business models
Lynda Brushett and Don Jamison

22. Innovation at the intersection of entrepreneurial community and rural economic development
Natalie Woodroofe

23. TED: Tourism Economic Development
Roger Merchant

24. Community economic development strategies for the Northeast
Part 1. Rural communities: From economic dependence to economic diversity
Scott Sawyer and Ellen Kahler

Part 2. Concept mapping: Applying art and science to community planning
Timothy Cullenen

25. Growing home strategies: Integrating agriculture into community development
Duncan Hilchey

26. Economic impacts of microbusiness and Factors that support self-employment
Part 1. Microbusiness is big business in New England
James C. McConnon, Jr.,  Sibel Atasoy, and Todd Gabe

Part 2. Factors determining the prevalence of and returns to self-employment in U.S. counties
Stephan Goetz and Martin Shields

27. Inspired thinking! Creative assistance fosters development
David Kestenbaum

           
28. Building a sustainable economic community in the Sprinfield area: A case study
Welthy Soni-Myers

29. Cultivating agency collaboration to encourage farm business planning
Deb Heleba, Steve Paddock, and Brian Norder

30. What every technical assistance provider needs to know about regulatory issues to assist business clients
Peter Crawford and Andrea O’Brien

31. The use of Return On Investment analysis
Michele Cranwell Schmidt and Carol Flint

32. Using educational and entrepreneurial resources to support government operations
Wendy Wilton and John Dumville

33. Mentoring and entrepreneurship
Ellen Fineberg and Mary Dingee Fillmore

 
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