Entrepreneurial Community Champion™

TrainingGet the Playbook

MRP has re-released the community playbook that will help your community come together to assess, organize and better promote the business development tools that already exist in your area.The playbook is built around BizPathways - the one-stop site for business resources and interactive tools. BizPathways informs the process of assessment and organization in your community.

We developed the book after talking with hundred of business owners, economic developers, and business service providers about their community needs and strengths. One need that came up in every community was the need to better access the existing tools and strengths in the community. The playbook includes worksheets and specific instructions to help you implement a community-wide economic development plan.

On Site Training

Community Entrepreneurial training will help you learn more about tools that can help your community organize existing local resources that nurture, support, and harness the creativity needed for entrepreneurship. During the Entrepreneurial Community Champion™ training you will:

1. Learn how to organize resources and support for entrepreneurs in your community.
2. Learn more about the Minnesota Entrepreneurial Gateway, and receive and use the 2005 ECC Playbook - "Building Entrepreneurial Community Champions - a Game Plan for Increasing the Support for Entrepreneurship in Your Community."
3. Assess local resources and the level of support for entrepreneurs in your community.
4. Learn how to use the BizPathways as your local planning and organizing tool.
5. Identify BizPathways Community Champions™ in your community.
6. Learn how to use and update information on BizPathways™ and Finance Avenue™.
7. Learn how entrepreneurs can locate and connect with local, regional, statewide and national resources.
8. Develop an action plan for increasing support of entrepreneurship in your community. Include tangible goals for 3, 6 and 12 months.
   

You can buy the playbook online through Café Press or get more information here.