[CircleUp] SD and WY reservations highlighted - New report explores rural entrepreneurship systems

[Stewart Sarkozy]

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Report shares findings from Kellogg demonstration on rural 
Entrepreneurship Development Systems 

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Systems have been used as a tool to stimulate economic revitalization in
rural communities for a number of years. To learn more about how these
systems function and to identify the most promising approaches to
creating and maintaining an EDS, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation launched a
demonstration involving six regional collaboratives in 2005. Now FIELD
has released a report that shares lessons from the demonstration -
Revitalizing Rural Economies Through Entrepreneurship Development
Systems. 

 

The publication explains the theory behind an EDS; examines the effects
the funded EDSs had on entrepreneurs, their local economies and the
policy environment surrounding them; explores some of the challenges
encountered; and shares final lessons learned from the demonstration. 


Included are examples of how the various EDSs were structured, as well
as descriptions of their accomplishments and key lessons for practice -
all of which should prove instructive to those interested in gaining a
better understanding of the concept or creating an EDS.

 

The six collaboratives in the demonstration were located in:

*	a 12-county region that spanned parts of West Virginia, Kentucky
and Ohio 
*	Oregon 
*	Nebraska 
*	northern New Mexico 
*	North Carolina 
*	three Indian reservations in the Great Plains

The report can be downloaded free at:
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Also available on the FIELD Web site is a PowerPoint and speech
delivered in November 2008 by FIELD Director Elaine Edgcomb explaining
key outcomes from the EDS demonstration. To download, visit:
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