About Enterprise Facilitation®

Building Microenterprises in Central Oregon

Enterprise Facilitation® is an economic and community development program that captures the dreams, imagination and resources of local entrepreneurs to create and sustain small business microenterprises through entrepreneurship.

A microenterprise is a small business with fewer than five employees and the owner is often the sole employee of the enterprise.

Enterprise Facilitation® enhances traditional economic development by providing rural communities in Central Oregon another approach using the time-tested community based approach of Enterprise Facilitation®. Entrepreneurship puts economic control in the hands of locals who have a stake in their community’s future.

This community development service provides free, confidential and professional small business advice to aspiring entrepreneurs and existing enterprises.   Pioneered by the Sirolli Institute, and the founder Ernesto Sirolli.

See the video of Ernesto Sirolli in the right collum, Keynote samples from Dr. Ernesto Sirolli.   

The Sirolli Institute is a nonprofit, global education and training organization of professionals with a wealth of experience in economic development and Enterprise Facilitation®. Their headquarters is located in Sacramento California.

Enterprise Facilitation® has proven to be an effective community development tool to create and sustain small businesses or microenterprises through entrepreneurship. 

Enterprise Facilitation accelerates entrepreneurship using the already existing community assets.  Committed volunteers comes alongside entrepreneurs through the ‘community resource board’ and ‘enterprise facilitator’.

Together they help to facilitate the creation of new microenterprises or grow existing enterprises.

Enterprise Facilitation® allows entrepreneurs to chart their economic future.  It’s not about planning, financing or providing incentives to recruit businesses.   The Sirolli Institute’s Enterprise Facilitation® program has proven to be an effective community development tool to create small business and microenterprises. In over 20 years of proven best practices in Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, 

Enterprise Facilitation® projects retain an average of 80 to 90 percent of new businesses after five years.  The Enterprise Facilitation model functions around three core principals:

 

Business assistance from the Enterprise Facilitator.

A Community Resource Board serves as a key piece of the facilitator’s resource network, assisting the facilitator in meeting the needs of the individual entrepreneurs.

Trinity of Management makes up three basic business functions – production, marking and financial management and nobody can accomplish all three alone.  

Central Oregon MicroEnterprise Facilitation serving Central Oregon communities in Crook, Jefferson, parts of Deschutes, The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Wasco and Sherman Counties

• Business assistance from the Enterprise Facilitator.

• A Community Resource Board serves as a key piece of the facilitator’s resource network, assisting the facilitator in meeting the needs of the individual entrepreneurs.

• Trinity of Management makes up three basic business functions – production, marking and financial management and nobody can accomplish all three alone.

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