Rural Entrepreneurship Development Program

Posted by on June 18, 2004

[posted from RFP Bulletin]

W.K. Kellogg Foundation Launches Rural Entrepreneurship Development Program
Deadline: August 13, 2004

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (<a href="http://www.wkkf.org/">http://www.wkkf.org/</a>) has announced that it will award $8 million in grants to foster entrepreneurship across rural America. Four grants of up to $2 million each will be awarded to four rural regional entrepreneurship development systems to promote entrepreneurial activity in their region, produce entrepreneurial models for other communities, leverage significant investment, and stimulate national and state interest in rural entrepreneurship policies and strategies.

Each of the four regional systems will be organized and led by a collaboration of organizations that will develop and implement products and services to encourage and stimulate entrepreneurship.

The Kellogg Foundation has contracted with the Corporation for Enterprise Development to assist it in identifying states and regions in rural America that demonstrate the capability of creating effective entrepreneurial development systems.

The foundation is seeking applicants who will form a collaborative of groups (private, governmental, or non-profit) to provide a full range of entrepreneurship development services for their region — be it a community, county, group of counties, reservation, or state. Each collaborative must include a lead organization, such as a university, community college, community development financial institution, and/or other established private, nonprofit, or public entity to manage the grant.

See the Corporation for Enterprise Development Web site (<a href="http://www.cfed.org/">http://www.cfed.org/</a>) for the complete RFP.

RFP Link: <a href="http://www.eshipsystems.org/how_downloads.html">http://www.eshipsystems.org/how_downloads.html</a>

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