What is Enterprise Facilitation™?

Enterprise Facilitation is a locally-driven, locally-supported economic development model. It focuses on people, not on financial aid or traditional training programs. It enhances, but does not duplicate, other existing efforts.

The Enterprise Facilitation model:

• Assesses personal commitment to a business idea before assessing that idea’s business viability.
  
• Empowers entrepreneurs to take that idea from a passionate dream to practical reality through proper management.
  
• Teaches business owners the importance of team building to balance the three equally vital aspects of successful business management: product, marketing, and finance.
  
• Encourages local expansion and retention rather than recruitment of outside businesses by capturing and enhancing the unique skills and passions of local people, creating a variety of local businesses with deep roots in the community.
  
• Relies on entrepreneurs’ own internal motivation and creates a “ripple effect” of excitement about the possibilities for local entrepreneurship.
  
• Brings together a diverse group of community leaders whose sole purpose is to advance entrepreneurship and strengthen local businesses.