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REAL Entrepreneurship is an entrepreneurship education program that helps youth and adults grow through hands-on entrepreneurship education.

REAL teaches individuals entrepreneurial and business skills that help build community and economic development.

Application Experience

Expansion Reflection

Experiential Learning Cycle

“Tell me, and I forget,Show me, and I remember,

Involve me, and I understand.”

Entrepreneurship Education provides opportunities for youth and adults to master

competencies such as:

– Opportunity Recognition– Creativity– Critical Thinking– Decision Making– Teamwork– Leadership

Why Entrepreneurship Education?

Entrepreneurship Education Pioneer Experiential Learning Cycle Approach Team-Based Learning NC REAL Workshops and Institutes to

train teachers in the REAL Curricula

Why NC REAL Enterprises?

Why REAL Entrepreneurship? Provides opportunities for aspiring

entrepreneurs Provides help to write a business plan

Enhances financial literacy skills

Aligned With National Content Standards for Entrepreneurship Education

Helps build sustainable small businesses Promotes economic development within

communities

The Communities in Schools of Caldwell County were awarded a grant to create an entrepreneurial focus to their programs

CIS reached out to the local chamber of commerce and the community college as partners

NC REAL worked with CIS to develop and deliver a series of facilitator trainings for their staff and community partners

CIS, NC REAL , and the community partners worked with their students to create small student-run businesses

The Sequoyah Fund, a Native American CDFI that serves the Eastern Band of Cherokee, approaches NC REAL about teacher facilitator training

The Sequoyah Fund works with the K-12 School System, 4-H and the local community college to recruit teachers and administrators

NC REAL develops and delivers and specialized K-8 and High School REAL Institute for a wide range of teachers

The school system and Sequoyah Fund are developing a strategy to incorporate entrepreneurship throughout the curriculum

The Town of Bayboro is a small town with a population less than 1,000 and is a STEP Community (Small Towns Economic Prosperity Demonstration Grant)

Through their work as a STEP community they designated entrepreneurship as one of their main economic development strategies

Bayboro and the County of Pamlico brought in NC REAL to deliver a specialized K-8 and High School REAL Institute for the K-12 and Community College teachers

The college and the public school system are now working together to create a more seamless entrepreneurship education system for their community

Dislocated Worker Programs – since 2000• 2,148 dislocated workers trained through NC REAL Programs• 394 new businesses started / 188 existing small businesses expanded

Growing America Through Entrepreneurship (GATE) Hop on the Bus! - Statewide High School Business Plan Competition Agriculture Entrepreneurship - Specialty Crop and Value Added Project

• 29 western NC ARC Counties Regional Youth Entrepreneurship Initiative

• Burke, McDowell, Rutherford, Mitchell, Avery, Yancey Counties Rural Home Healthcare Self-Employment Project

• Western Piedmont, Craven, Edgecombe, Roanoke-Chowan, Coastal Carolina

Growing REAL Agriculture Enterprises in Robeson County From Entrepreneurship to Enterprises – A REAL Pathway

• Surry & Yadkin Counties

These programs brought together•Community Colleges and Small Business Centers•Community Lenders•Community Organizers•Economic Developers•Chambers of Commerce•Workforce Development Professionals•K-12 Teachers•Afterschool Programs

Uptown Association works to promote the historically black part of downtown New Bern– Five Points.

Two volunteers from Uptown attended REAL facilitator training and now contract with the College’s Small Business Center to offer REAL Small Business Course for Five Points residents.

Worked together to develop an introduction course to prepare students for full small business courses.

Easier to approach organizations to participate in youth programs.

Brought in speakers, judges, and donors from groups throughout the community.

Created and strengthened relationships between community groups and the college

The Energizing Entrepreneurship for Rural America is a national curriculum that North Carolina has used to inspire locally based entrepreneurship development strategies

Communities send diverse teams to the three-four day workshop

Team members learn to work together and find common goals

Teams leave the workshop with a strategy to build entrepreneurship in their communities

Created a team to build entrepreneurship development

Team, spearheaded by the community college, included local chambers, local governments, economic development office and K-12 educators

Held workshops throughout the county Encouraged teachers and community organizations to

learn how to teach entrepreneurship Brought local business owners and business support

providers into the classroom

Reached out to dislocated workers throughout Robeson County by visiting JobLink Center weekly.

Small Business Center contracted with a REAL facilitator at a rural community center to offer a course to local laid off workers.

REAL Course offered at the local community center instead of the college.

REAL facilitator brought in local business owners as speakers and supporters.

Look toward community organizations for instructorsIncreases training capacity for community organizations and provides connection to underserved audiences.

Start with youthEasier to initiate involvement with a youth focused activity and expand to other ages.

Engage Community Groups in Creating an Entrepreneurship Development Strategy

Provides chance to develop relationships with other organizations while creating a culture of entrepreneurship.

Create a welcoming, non-intimidating program through careful choice of location, curriculum, activities and speakers

Builds a relationship of trust and understanding with partner organizations and their clients.

Youth Youth Entrepreneurship

Summer Camp Building Entrepreneurial

Skills (BES) REAL Innovative Student

Enterprises (RISE) Youth REAL

Entrepreneurship

Adult REAL Entrepreneurship REAL Agriculture REAL Home Healthcare REAL Focused

Entrepreneurship Seminars REAL Online Online Business Courses

NC REAL Tools to UseNC REAL Tools to Use

NC REAL Enterprises3739 National Drive, Suite 110

Raleigh, NC 27612

Malinda Todd malinda@ncreal.org

(919) 781-6833 ext. 126

Arlene Childers - Western NC arlene@ncreal.org

(919) 491-7572

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