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Energizing Entrepreneurs
   

Center Resources

The RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship is committed to connecting economic development practitioners and policy makers across rural America to the resources needed to energize entrepreneurs and to implement entrepreneurship as a core rural economic development strategy. This page is your first link to the Center’s resources. The menu items will help you learn more about the Center’s specific resources:

  • About the Center – The place to go if you’d like to know more about the Center, its history and its staff.
  • E of the Month – We believe in the power of stories to help make the case for entrepreneurship. Our latest “E of the Month” story about a successful rural entrepreneur, entrepreneurial support organization or community is featured here.
  • Rural E News – This is the place to go to access the current and archived additions of our electronic newsletter.
  • Library – We strive to be a repository of the latest and best information on rural entrepreneurship. Our library includes case studies, evaluation reports, stories and tools produced by the Center as well as key research reports and links to other sources of information about rural entrepreneurship.
  • Upcoming Trainings – The Center sponsors national and regional E2 Energizing Entrepreneurship training as well as training in Home Town Competitiveness, a partnership of the Nebraska Community Foundation, the RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship and the Heartland Center for Leadership Development. To learn more about upcoming trainings, visit this page often.
  • New Releases – This page is an easy way to find new publications from the Center and others. If you’ve seen it listed in Rural Entrepreneurship News, you’ll find it here.
  • Energizing Young Entrepreneurs (EYE)– We’re looking for communities that are Energizing Young Entrepreneurs (EYE). We’d like to know more about what you are doing and, if selected, write a story about your program or young entrepreneur. If you’d like to nominate a program or young entrepreneur for our EYE*DEAS Talent Search, this is the place.
  • e2 Energizing Entrepreneurs – The Center is committed to sharing what we’ve learned about energizing entrepreneurship throughout rural America. From training and policy academies to half-day workshops to keynote speeches, we’ve developed a flexible set of services and want to work with you to tailor our services to your needs.

We hope that by exploring this website, you can find the answers to many of your questions about rural entrepreneurship. However, please feel free to contact the Center with additional questions: taina@e2mail.org.

The RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship

The RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship strives to be the focal point for efforts to stimulate and support private and public entrepreneurship development in communities throughout rural America.  By supporting practice-driven research and evaluation and facilitating shared learning among practitioners, researchers and policy makers, the Center works to encourage entrepreneurship development as an effective route to building prosperous, dynamic, and sustainable rural economies. The Center is part of the Rural Policy Research Institute, an organization dedicated to providing unbiased analysis and information on the challenges, needs, and opportunities facing rural America. To learn more about RUPRI, go to www.rupri.org.

 

 

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