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 Approach

The Rural Enterprise Center has created an innovative, scalable model approach to farming, focused on creating economic opportunities for rural Latino families. The training process builds on strengths of culture and experience and addresses challenges often tied to structural racism: lack of access to land, working capital, marketing and business support infrastructure, and focused training.

To learn more, download the Rural Enterprise Center fact sheet (PDF). Visit our blog for regular updates.