The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development

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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

Regional Entrepreneurial Resource Team Sign-Up

The National eXtension Entrepreneurship Community of Practice (COP) is seeking advice from educators and key partners across the U.S. who are engaged or interested in entrepreneurship-related subjects. In an effort to build a strong team of Extension educators involved in entrepreneurship efforts across each region, the eXtension Entrepreneurship COP is working in tandem with the Regional Rural Development Centers to form "Regional Entrepreneurship Resource Teams." These regional teams will be asked to provide input to our national eXtension Entrepreneurship team on various components of the eXtension Entrepreneurship website. Furthermore, they will be encouraged to alert the Entrepreneurship COP (or their respective Regional Rural Development Center) of important research and educational products/resources that should be carefully considered for possible inclusion in the entrepreneurship section of the national eXtension website.

If you would like to become a member of the NERCRD's Regional Entrepreneurship Resource Team, please complete the following registration form and note the entrepreneurship-related areas that most closely reflect your areas of expertise or interests.

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Would you be willing to be included on our "Ask the Experts" list of Extension educators who would respond to questions posed by Extension customers on entrepreneurship-related topics? These request would be infrequent and would be focused only on those topics that you feel are within your areas of expertise. Yes No


Please note your areas of expertise below (please check all that apply).
Enhancing the Skills of Current/Emerging Entrepreneurs
	Business Ideas (helping entrepreneurs develop/refine their ideas)
	Starting a Business (moving the idea forward to creation)
	Securing Business Financing (locating funds, generate revenue, manage the funds)
	Running a Business (adapting to market conditions)
	Growing a Business (expanding to new markets, products, using new technologies to expand markets -- such as e-commerce)
	Exit Strategies (selling or moving out of the business)
	Resources and Tools for Entrepreneurs (information and resources entrepreneurs may need to manage through the ups and downs)
	Developing Youth Entrepreneurs
Creating Entrepreneurial Communities (ECs)
	Traits of an Entrepreneurial Community (key attributes that help spur entrepreneurship)
	Approaches to Creating ECs (enterprise facilitation, entrepreneurial league system, entrepreneurial coaching, economic gardening; community incubators)
	Asessment Strategies (community entrepreneurial readiness, asset mapping, inventory of local entrepreneurs)
	Importance of ECs (how entrepreneurship fits into the local economy; EC as a community/economic development strategy; building a support base for creating an EC)
	Policies that Support Entrepreneurial Friendly Communities (local/state policy options and activities)
	Tools for Building ECs (strategic planning, community asset mapping, inventorying of local entrepreneurs)
	Case Studies of ECs (ways to tell the story about successful entrepreneurial communities)

Do you know of any communities that you would describe as being entrepreneurial-friendly places? If so, can you please provide us with the name of the community, what state it is in, and a contact person that we could contact to gather more information about the community's efforts? Are there any resources you have developed that you would like to bring to the attention of the team?