The National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship reports on grants awarded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to support rural entrepreneurship development programs. The winners of these grants of up to $2 million include:
* Nebraska: Hometown Competitiveness, a joint program of the Nebraska Community Foundation, the Center for Rural Entrepreneurship, and numerous other partners.
* New Mexico: The Northern New Mexico Entrepreneur Development System will serve business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs in northern New Mexico.
* North Carolina: The Entrepreneurship Development System for Rural North Carolina is a collaborative project of the North Carolina Rural Development Center and more than twenty other partners.
* Oregon: Connecting Oregon for Rural Entrepreneurship (CORE) will support entrepreneurs in five rural Oregon Counties. Learn More
* South Dakota/Wyoming: The Oweesta Collaborative will serve the Pine Ridge and Cheyenne River reservations (Lakota Sioux) and the Wind River Reservation (Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapahoe). Learn More
* West Virginia: The Advantage Valley Entrepreneurial League System serves a 12 county region in three states: Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia.
