[OMS_MANAGERS] FW: Rural Opportunity Initiative (ROI)

[STUART Sheri * OPRD]

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FYI – Exciting new opportunity through Business Oregon!
quest for Letters of Intent
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Rural Opportunity Initiative (ROI) | Request for Letters of Intent
Is your rural Oregon community reassessing economic opportunities, building on existing assets, and working with partners to enhance entrepreneurial capacity? ROI is a strategy to unify and strengthen existing business development resources to build rural prosperity through capacity building grants. ROI values entrepreneurship-based economic development, which emphasizes the creation and support of entrepreneurs and small businesses. ROI is not a new layer, and it is not operating in competition with existing initiatives. Because of this, applicants are prioritized based on:

  1.  their ability to demonstrate broad commitment and meaningful support from existing local economic development and small business support organizations, and
  2.  their ability to build the capacity of existing local economic development and small business support organizations, as well as, grow their collective ongoing efforts to strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
A detailed overview of the initiative, funding process, the Letter of Intent form, instructions for submitting responses, FAQ, and supporting resources are on our Rural Opportunity Initiative web page<http://development.oregon4biz.com/acton/ct/14786/s-0199-1711/Bct/q-004c/l-0007:27d1/ct2_0/1?sid=TV2%3AXkrnneii5>. Completed Letter of Intent forms are due by noon on December 1, 2017. Email us<mailto:bizor.roi at oregon.gov> with any inquiries.







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