Enterprise and Community Support Company's services are based on the premise that a healthy community requires a healthy economy.  To achieve both a healthy community and economy, a neighborhood must be able to generate intensive, on-going, positive community relationships and a strong entrepreneurial culture. Standard social and economic policies and programs have not yielded the necessary results because they do not realistically address the requirements of human nature, community and entrepreneurship.

     To achieve maximum success in any community development effort, community building activities need to be comprehensive and systematic. By comprehensive, we mean that for a community to be revitalized, a variety of issues (housing conditions, employment, youth, etc.) need to be addressed simultaneously.  Our systematic approach recognizes that a neighborhood or target area needs be viewed like a system, where the various neighborhood issues influence each other.  For example, improved youth development may reduce crime which can raise property values.

     Our programs offer a departure from standard community development strategies that act to ameliorate the consequences of poverty.  Our approach works simultaneously at the individual level and the community level. It works at the individual level to help residents create and/or find jobs thereby becoming financially self- sufficient.  At the community level, our programs mobilize the neighborhood stakeholders to determine goals, develop measurable objectives and make commitments to work on projects to address these objectives.  This approach also involves not-for-profit and government agencies in the design of community development initiatives and then holds them and others, accountable for their promised contributions to reach agreed-upon objectives.

     Because community organizations are usually financially strapped we work closely with our clients to leverage existing resources.  We will also work with potential clients to identify and obtain funds for our programs.

      EVALUATION AND DESIGN

• Define and identify community social and economic assets and liabilities
• Evaluate community assets and based on those evaluations, design appropriate processes to leverage those assets
• Mobilize residents to use available assets to develop positive community relationships and a strong "entrepreneurial culture"
• Evaluate community liabilities and design systematic plans which minimize and/or eliminate their impact on the local culture
• Design structural plans to coordinate the simultaneous activities of individual stakeholders, with those agencies and governments that are active in the target area
• Identify and define appropriate processes to assist individuals to create or obtain jobs
• Prepare recommendations for improving the administration of neighborhood institutions

      RESEARCH AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

• Identify data requirements necessary for effective results-oriented program implementation
• Develop results quantification procedures and identify related data collection methods
• Develop appropriate results monitoring and accountability methods
• Provide technical assistance regarding implementation and use of information systems

      ENTERPRISE AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

• Enterprise and Community Leadership Recruitment and Development
• Community Mobilization, Involvement and Revitalization - A long-term effort to energize and assist neighborhood residents in directing and undertaking revitalization of their community
• Comunity and Public Organization Re-engineering - Implementation of re-engineering and relatd techniques to assist neighborhood, community and government organizations to redefine and realign their mission goals, and to restructure their organizations to meet those goals
• Micro Business Development Program - An intensive, comprehensive program to provide practical, experiential business training for micro entrepreneurs
• Micro Business Incubation Center Implementation - Assist in designing and establishing micro business incubation and support centers.
• Entrepreneurial Peer Support Program - Foster knowledge-based, sustained peer support among micro entrepreneurs
• Long-term Micro Entrepreneur Technical Assistance Support Training - Implement technology-enhanced, long-term technical assistance to support and sustain micro entrepreneurs
• Micro Loan Systems Implementation - Specialized structures and processes to maximize and sustain micro lending activities
• Life Management Skills Training - Establish on-going life management skills training program for micro entrepreneurs

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