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Entrepreneurship

Publications

Entrepreneurship Summit Strengthens Minority Businesses-Janet McCoy, Auburn University News, September 26, 1997

Youth and Adult Entrepreneurship: The Tuskegee University Micro Enterprise Model-Alabama Cooperative Extension System

Research Reports

Entrepreneurship_Centered Economic Development: An Analysis of African American Entrepreneurship in the Southern Black Belt (PDF format)-Ralph D. Christy and Wylin Dassie, TVA Rural Studies Publication, July 2000

Extension: Moving from Welfare to Entrepreneurial Reality Amidst Turf Eroded by the Wind and Rain of Societal Change-Richard J. Sauer, President and CEO, National 4-H Council, Penn State Extension, October 29, 1998

YE$ Youth Entrepreneurship (PDF format)-Etta Mae Westbrook, Martha Keel, Bridgett Smith, Celvia S. Dixon, Alan Barefield, and Margaret Pile, Agricultural Extension Service, University of Tennessee

Related Websites

Entrepreneurship-Texas Agricultural Extension Service Family Development and Resource Management

Training Curricula

Ca$hing in on Business Opportunities: A Guide to Building a Home-Based and Micro-Business Program (Chapter Outlines)-Developed by the CSREES Home-Based and Micro-Business National Design Team as a part of the Communities in Economic Transition National Initiative-SRDC Series #210, 2000

Getting Started in a Food Manufacturing Business in Tennessee (PDF format)-William C. Morris, Professor, Food Science and Technology, University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service, 1996

Getting Started in the Food Specialty Business-William C. Hurst and A. Estes Reynolds, Extension Food Scientists, and George A. Schuler and P.T. Tybor, Former Extension Food Scientists, The University of Georgia, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Cooperative Extension Service, March 1991

Money My Way for Adult Leaders-Family Resource Management, Department of Family and Youth Development, Clemson Extension

Small Business Primer on Legal Issues-Copyright 1997; this program was developed by Carol A. Schwab-North Carolina Cooperative Extension

Starting a Successful Catering Business-Ann Lastovica, Extension Specialist, Family Management, Virginia State University; Tim Roberts, Extension Specialist, Food Safety, Virginia Tech; and Denise Brochetti, Extension Specialist, Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise, Virginia Tech-Virginia Cooperative Extension, posted June 1999

Supporting Small Business and Entrepreneurship
MDC, Inc.

Conferences/Trainings

Business Skills Training
September 2-6, 2003
San Antonio, Texas

Southern Institute for Rural Development (SIRD)
November 5-8, 2001
Athens, Georgia

Southern Region Community Development Institute
June 12-16, 2000
Canton, Mississippi

Southern Region Community Development Institute
May 14-18, 2001
New Braunfels, Texas

Southern Region Community Development Institute
September 23-27, 2002
Talladega, Alabama

Value-Added Entrepreneurship
December 3-5, 2002
Franklin (Nashville), Tennessee


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