• 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
• Social Capital
• 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

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.

Featured Information

• Local Foods Workshop, "Enhancing Local Foods Systems: Exploring The Research, What Works, and What We Need to Learn"
  >>Conference Homepage>>Conference Brochure>>Registration
• 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
  
• Transatlantic Land Use Conference (TALUC )
  >>Policy Briefs
• Youth Out-Migration from Pennsylvania: The Roles of Government Fragmentation vs. the Beaten Path Effect
  >>View the Article
• Land Grant Youth Entrepreneurship Symposium (Land Grant YES)
  >>Papers and Presentations >>Proceedings
  
• Population Change in the Northeast, 2000-2005
  >>Issues Brief
• Industry Clusters and Agricultural Profitability
  >>Presentation prepared for the 2007 ESCOP Meeting, Philadelphia,      PA. View the presentation    
• Invitation to Join the NE Regional Entrepreneurship Resource Team
  >>If you are involved, or have an active interest in entrepreneurship-related activities, the NERCRD invites you to join our regional entrepreneurship resource team. This team is not limited to land grant faculty/Extension educators. To join, please complete this form: nercrd.psu.edu/EntreCOP/NERCRDEntrepTeamForm.htm
• Northeast Economic and Community Development Papers
  >> View the Economic and Community Development Survey
• >> Strategic Directions in Community and Economic Development
• Industry Targeting/Industry Clusters Workshop
  >> View the draft Research Papers/Slide Shows
• >> View the draft Extension Papers/Slide Shows