Rural Enterprise Center
Poverty is significant barrier to participating fully in community life. People with limited income and resources, and those who are working multiple jobs to provide for their families find it challenging to engage with their children's education and activities, much less participate themselves in creating solutions to shared community challenges.
The Rural Enterprise Center takes an economic development approach to poverty reduction and community building - bringing together the support infrastructure, resources, systems and programs that rural community members, and specifically, Latin@ entrepreneurs need to succeed.
The work
The Agripreneur Training Model
The Rural Enterprise Center has created an innovative, scalable model that capitalizes on the strengths of immigrant Latin@s, and addresses challenges often tied to structural racism: lack of access to land, working capital, marketing and business support infrastructure, and focused training.
The model is designed to require minimum investment / inputs and deliver maximum return / outputs, moving through three phases: Discovery, Development and Launch. At the same time, the model has the power to transform the way food is produced and delivered.
To learn more, download the Rural Enterprise Center fact sheet (English PDF / Spanish PDF - coming soon). Visit our blog for regular updates. And check out the tools and resources on this site.