We help community leaders build a prosperous future by supporting and empowering business, social and civic entrepreneurs. With our roots and hearts in rural America, we help communities of all sizes and interests by bringing empowering research together with effective community engagement to advance community-driven strategies for prosperity. Our solutions empower community leaders to find their own answers to the economic development challenges and opportunities they face.
Entrepreneurial Communities is a proven framework or roadmap for designing and delivering entrepreneurship strategies that work long-term.
Our Community Development Philanthropy solutions provide effective strategies to build philanthropic capacity and generate resources.
A new social enterprise, LOCUS Impact Investing, empowers place-focused foundations to invest their capital locally to build prosperous, vibrant communities.
The power of data and research is highlighted as a new, 5-year economic development plan is adopted to begin a “fresh effort to rethink how the county can maximize its unique characteristics in ways that will lead to robust economic activity, diversity and growth.”
The Center's Entrepreneurial Communities framework and process is presented to Pomeroy, Ohio's leadership by partners Rural Action and the Appalachian Regional Commission in the hopes that they'll use it to build a stronger and more sustainable local economy.
