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Supporting and Sustaining Entrepreneurial Communities: A Cooperative, Community-Based Approach
The primary focus of this project is to:
- Work with regional clusters to foster communiyt-based economic developmenent.
- Identify best practices coming out of visioning.
- Engage in community-directed research, using university and community members to business development, and with development of entrepreneurial opportunities, in general.
- Link financial resources to entrepreneurial opportunties.
- Identify activities and outcomes for communities and funders.
Map of clusters where we have conducted projects:
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Yellow: Greenbier, Monroe, Pocahontas, and Summer Counties
Red: McDowell and Wyoming Counties
Blue: Webster and Braxton Counties
Green: Kanawha Valley Cluster (does not perfectly coincide with the counties shown) |
Lightstone Community Development Corporation, a non-profit organization with headquarters in Pendleton County is our partner on this project |
Benedum Foundation is financially supporting this project with a grant that started in summer 2004 and will run through February 2006. |
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Several units at West Virginia University are engaged in this project, including the Division of Resource Management, Extension, and the Office of Service Learning.
For more information, contact:
Peter Schaeffer
Division of Resource Management
West Virginia University, POB 6108
Morgantown, WV 26506-6108
(304) 293-4832, ext. 4450
Peter.Schaeffer@mail.wvu.edu
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