Useful Resources

Organizations

ARC Entrepreneurship Initiative
Association for Enterprise Opportunity
Association of SBDCs
Center for the Study of Rural America
CFED
EntreWorks Consulting
Heartland Center for Leadership Development
Kauffman Foundation
Kellogg Foundation
National Business Incubation Organization
National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship
Nebraska Community Foundation
RUPRI
US Assn. for Small Business & Entrepreneurship

Research

Center for Women’s Business Research
GEM Consortium
Kauffman Foundation Research Portal
US Small Business Administration
US SBA Office of Advocacy

Youth Entrepreneurship Organizations

Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education
FFA Agri-Entrepreneurship Program
Junior Achievement
National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship
REAL (Rural Entrepreneurship through Action Learning)
Youth Venture

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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