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Financial Resources for Business Ownership
This webinar (51 minutes) provides information to current and potential business owners about Nebraska microenterprise statewide resources. Included is discussion on financing a small /micro business, along with saving and building credit for business ownership. Guest speakers were Jeff Christensen of NED, Inc., and Jeff Reynolds of REAP, along with Rose Jaspersen, Executive Director and Glennis McClure, Program Manager of NEF.
To access the webinar, click on the provided link: https://canhelp.webex.com/canhelp/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=58206977&rKey=3fe5e5feb3f41ade
Economic Gardening
Chris Gibbons, Director of Business & Industry Affairs for Littleton, CO discusses the opportunities and challenges in economic development rooted in growing jobs through entrepreneurship rather than chasing jobs by recruiting companies from outside. This is an adobe connect webinar courtesy of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension. (http://www.extension.org/) To access this webinar, simply click on the title below.
Renewable Energy and Economic Potential in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota
The most important issue awaiting action by this Congress for rural development in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota is renewable energy legislation. Expanding production of renewable electricity to 20 percent of the nation’s electrical generation has the potential to create a large number of new jobs in the rural Midwest and Great Plains, according to an unpublished analysis from the U.S. Department of Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The state-by-state projections were prepared in conjunction with the laboratory’s report 20% Wind by 2030, but were never formally published. Here, we will focus on Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota. To view this pdf file simply click on the title below.
Renewable-Energy-and-Economic-Potential
This article is from the Center for Rural Affairs’ October 2009 monthly newsletter. The authors are John Crabtree and Kim Preston.
Jim Collins: How to Thrive in 2009
By Bo Burlingham | Apr 1, 2009 Inc. Magazine
As part of our (Inc. Magazine’s) 30th-anniversary issue, Inc. asked Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and Built to Last, what we might expect in the next 30 years. His answer: uncertainty, chaos, turbulence, and risk. In other words, it’s not a bad time to be an entrepreneur.
Managing your Household and Business During a Recession
Visit Managing in Tough Times for tips and ideas on how to save money for your home and business. The website features resources explaining money-saving tactics to stretch your grocery dollars, trim your family budget and make your home more energy efficient. Apply the same tactics to decrease your business expenses by weather stripping, turning off lights in vacant rooms or powering down electronic equipment when not in use.