Alan Barefield
Southern Rural Development Center
P.O. Box 9656
Mississippi State, MS 39762-9656
(662) 325-3207, (662) 325-8915 fax

In its role as the primary educational resource for community and economic development Extension professionals in the Southern region, the Southern Rural Development Center (SRDC) has provided several specialized educational programs to fill the needs of rural communities in the Southern states. One of these programs that has experienced tremendous demand is Value Added Entrepreneurship. The program has several factors that have proven essential to its success including a broad understanding of the value added sector, the utilization of a broad range of subject matter specialists, and the provision of user friendly tools to participants that could be used by the participants with they clients when they return home.

This project will describe this educational program in detail with particular emphasis on the methodologies used in program delivery, the types of specialists used in delivering the program, the tools provided in the program, and ways that this program can be replicated across the country.

PowerPoint Presentation (PDF format, 234 kb)