• Community Development
  • Entrepreneurship
  • eXtension
  • Northeast Key Contacts
  • Access eNonProfit Tutorial
• Land Use
  • TALUC
  • Land Use in the Northeast U.S.
  • GIS in Your Community
• Small Farms Industry Clusters
• Local Foods
  • May 19-20, 2009 Local Foods Conference
  • Local Foods Resources and Links
• Poverty
  • Poverty Data
  • Big Boxes
• Other
  • eCommerce
  • Energy
  • Issue Briefs: Population Change and
    Rural Society

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

• Workshops/Conferences
• Center Publications
• State Links
• Center Staff
• Work Space

Mission

Enhancing the capacity of Land Grant Universities to foster rural development and regional prosperity.

Featured Information

• National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) plans to release Agriculture and Food Research Initiative RFA in February
  >>NIFA Newsroom
• The National Association of Counties (NACO) has just released the results of a survey conducted to learn how counties are faring in the economic downturn 
  >>NACO News Room
• Targeting Regional Economic Development (TRED), A joint initiative of the Regional Rural Development Centers
  >>Tools and Resources
• Harnessing USDA Rural Development programs to support local and regional food systems (memo from USDA Deputy Secretary K. A. Merrigan)
  >>USDA Memo
• Foundations of Practice in Community Development Training, Level I will be offered as a Web-based distance education program
  >> Informational Brochure
• SARE Sustainable Community Grants Webinar
  >> Adobe Connect Webinar
• >>PowerPoint Presentation
• Secretary Vilsack talks about President Obama's vision including the repopulation of rural America, community development and business development
  >> Ag Secretary Addresses Council of 1890 Universities Meeting
  
• Local Foods Workshop, "Enhancing Local Foods Systems: Exploring The Research, What Works, and What We Need to Learn"
  >>Conference Homepage>>Conference Proceedings>>Program
• Small Business Development and Rising Self-Employment: Opportunities for Land Grant Universities, presented at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, February 27, 2009
  >>View the Presentation
• NERCRD Catalogue of Publications, Projects, & Major Events
  1999-2008
  >>View the Catalogue
  

About the Center

The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development is dedicated to providing research-based information that helps create regional prosperity through entrepreneurial and cluster-based innovation, while assuring balanced uses of natural resources in livable communities in the northeastern United States.