Thanks and will do Tony. I will send you an e-mail ping and then we can discuss further off-line.
Cheers! Alan On Aug 2, 5:28 pm, Tony Bacigalupo <[email protected]> wrote: > Alan, > > Grea to hear from you and welcome! > > You project sounds ambitious and unprecedented. It sounds like you'll > be encountering some unique challenges, or at least some common > challenges on a different scale. > > The biggest challenge I foresee is in successfully fostering healthy, > organic communities in each of the areas where spaces are planned. You > would do well to reach out to local communities and individuals and > empower them to help plan and build each of the spaces, so they have > strong local roots. > > I'd love to speak with you further and learn more; please feel free to > email me off-list. > > Best of luck and keep us posted! > > Cheers, > Tony > > On Aug 2, 2009, at 5:08 PM, "alan.pruitt" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > > Hello Coworking Community: > > > I am the Director of a non-profit economic development agency called > > Western Arizona Economic Development District (WAEDD) that represents > > 23,502 square miles in La Paz, Mohave, and Yuma counties in Arizona. > > WAEDD is the pubic liaison portal for the U.S. Economic Development > > Administration (EDA) and receives all of its funding from the federal > > government and community membership fees. > > > I am forming a Rural Enterprise Accelerator Program (REAP) that will > > incorporate Coworking in several rural communities as the second tier > > of a business incubator program for under-served rural economic > > communities. > > > I am fortunate to have higher education support from three different > > colleges and the Arizona Small Business Development Center (SBDC) > > network. I also have some heavy lift from other non-profit and > > workforce development agencies. Public held well-known corporations > > are also pledging their support for rural Coworking spaces. > > > I am open to suggestions from any Coworking site and input from more > > experienced Coworking mentors in the group. > > > I have been lurking for about a year in the Coworking world and its > > now time for next steps. > > > I look forward to any and all input -- and I would like to "pay > > forward" any of my lessons learned in this process. > > > Cheers! > > > Alan Pruitt > > Yuma AZ > > alan.pruitt AT waedd DOT info > >http://www.waeddblog.info --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
