http://www.ruralec.com The Rural Enterprise Center is a program of Main Street Project focused in economic development. Our mission is “to strengthen communities by organizing programs, resources, and the support infrastructure needed to maximize the success potential of rural Latino entrepreneurs.” Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:44:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here is part of the response to this question from a world renoun leader in this field of food security, Vandana Shiva. At the Rural Enterprise Center, we take global, regional, national and local issues into account when designing strategies that work for our local minority population and those who ... http://www.ruralec.com/archives/416 We are very happy to be getting most needed rains, although a bit late for the season, we hope it won't freeze solid too soon so this water can soak deep into the underground water tables. I just drove over the Cannon River in Northfield and despite recent rains, it ... http://www.ruralec.com/archives/411 The Rural Enterprise Center/Main Street Project, is now a member of the Association for Enterprise Opportunity, based out of Arlington, VA and comprised by small and emerging enterprise members nationwide. From all of the organizations that work for small and medium size businesses, the AEO is the one that we ... http://www.ruralec.com/archives/410 A: More entrepreneurs! Let’s talk about micro, small and medium entrepreneurs: the ones who don’t beg for bail outs, the ones who make responsible decisions because their own checkbooks will end up paying the consequences of poor decisions and failures. They are some of the bright spots in our economy, the ... http://www.ruralec.com/archives/409 Rural Enterprise Center to Graduate 10 Latino Entrepreneurs from Business Trainings NORTHFIELD, Minn., October 16, 2008 – Ten Latino entrepreneurs will graduate from the Rural Enterprise Center’s business training program this Saturday, Oct 18. The training program, the CORE FOUR® Business Planning Course, was offered in Spanish for the first ... http://www.ruralec.com/archives/408 It has been well documented, and confirmed by the experiences of many of us, that in Latin America, people in power seize and hold local resources using a variety of schemes. What is common to most of these situations is that local resources – whether cash crops for exports, local ... http://www.ruralec.com/archives/407 This was the title of a recent article on the Northfield News in Northfield, News Editor Ariel Emery wrote it after attending an introductory on a new business venture under development called Turiventures, an international community tourism company that we are sponsoring here at the Rural Enterprise Center.  We meet ... http://www.ruralec.com/archives/406 At the Rural Enterprise Center we are always looking for new information that can point to critical paths and strategies for the areas that we serve.  I am linking below to an article with encouraging prospects for our region's possibilities as leaders in enterprise development, and what may be some ... http://www.ruralec.com/archives/405 I have been working with a young couple, Adalinda Sanchez and Carlos Ascencio, owners and operators of Carlos and Adalinda Painting and Gerdening Services LLC. Their new business is based here in Northfield but service other areas around the region. Most recently, I visited them at ... http://www.ruralec.com/archives/404 Natividad Lopez, his wife, their two kids and his three friends and their families joined together to grow 2 acres of black turtle beans and harvested 2,000 pounds this year. Maybe this sort of information is not news by itself, especially since black turtle beans are grown in large ... http://www.ruralec.com/archives/392