PROGRAMMING AREAS

   Community Capacity Building

   Regional Economic Development

   Entrepreneurship

   Local & Regional Food Systems

   Balanced Use of Natural Resources

   Other

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 Listening Sessions on Rural Entrepreneurship

The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development will sponsor four (one-day) workshops as part of an effort to create a national rural entrepreneruship coalition. The listening sessions will serve to help launch the National Coalition for Rural Entrepreneurship, which builds on the momentum created by Kellogg's RFP on Entrepreneurship Development Systems for Rural America.

Locations and Dates

Concord, NH, June 24, 2005 Syracuse, NY, July 12, 2005 Charleston, WV, July 19, 2005 State College, PA, July 27, 2005 Annapolis, MD, September 9, 2005 Rural Entrepreneurship Press Release

Links to Listening Sessions in all of the regions can be found on The Center for Rural Entrepreneurship site. The National Coalition for Rural Enterpreneurship, Washington State University Northeast Listening Sessions Summary, Mary Peabody, Nashville Listening Sessions Summit, Dec. 18-19, 2005

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.