Economic DevelopmentMajor Program

955

Total Hours

Contributed.

8369

Contacts

with Local Stakeholders.

2

Hours

of Multistate Efforts.

211

Total Number

of Volunteers Engaged.

Program Indicators

Number of businesses receiving private investment as a result of economic development planning

56

Number of businesses reached through Extension programming

576

Number of businesses implementing economic development plans

39

Number of economic development-related projects/plans created with Extension’s assistance

38

Stories

Understanding Economic Behavior

The problem - Learning about finance and the economy can be difficult and unattainable. The director of multicultural services at Eastern Area Community Ministries and I have been working with a group of immigrant women for the past year to teach them personal finance and economic behavior as a way to help them integrate themselves to their surrounding community.The educational program response - I worked with the director of multicultural services at EACM to come up with a program that would be...

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Understanding Economic Behavior

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