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Supporting and Sustaining Entrepreneurial Communities: A Cooperative, Community-Based Approach
We started this project in June 2004 and will officially complete it by the end of February 2006. This will not mean the end of our community-based reserach, however. This project was a catalyst to bring together members of the university with stakeholders in communities and counties in West Virginia. We will continue to seek projects to work on, and we will build on lessons learned from this projects.
This was not our first project. Among other recent and ongoing projects to serve West Virginia and its communities are the West Virginia Community Design Team, the Recruitable Communities Program.
 This page is under construction and will soon add a list and desriptions of projects undertaken.
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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