how do i set up cooperatives in rural areas especially for women?
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YOU NEED BUSINESS DEGREES TO GET THIS THING DONE TO GET BETTER ADVICE ON START UPS AND PROSPERITY AFTERWQARDS TO GROW BIGGER
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http://www.mnchippewatribe.org/ \n\nYou don't say which state you live in, but this should help you get started.
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Check any Tractor supply or feed store. or any Place that deals in farming supplies. and if necessary check all Home inprovement and places that do fencing.
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That depends on where that business is established. (For example you can make a Business consultation firm in a big city but it will be stupid to do that in a small town with very little or no companies at all).\n\nMoreover, are you referring only to products or services are welcome as well. You can import products or offer services that you are familiar with or passionated about (for example if your hobby is bowling you can open a bowling center in your area, or if you are a haircutter you can start importing a professional hairstyling brand).\n\nThere is no magic solution for anyone to start his/her own business… Each answer just like every business is different according to the needs and wants of one.\n\nYou need to find out what is missing in your region or area and provide it. Try to sell something unique or differentiated if you want to succeed.
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try this for a change\n\nhttp://www.makerere.ac.ug/womenstudies/congress/abstarct/Gender,%20the%20Economy%20and%20the%20Workplace.htm
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Try looking up websites for enviromental groups.  They may have some good ideas for you.
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I suggest you go to the following places, all of which offer their services for free\n\nSCORE http://www.score.org - this is a group of volunteers mostly retired business professionals and entrepreneurs with years of experience in doing business. They can give you free mentoring as you start your business. I have tried them and they are excellent. Lots of great ideas and just to be able to talk to someone about your ideas is great.\n\nYour local Small business development center = go to your favorite search engine and search for "[your state] SBDC"\n\nIf you are a woman, you can also go to your local Women's Business Center. Here is a PDF file of state-by-state locations of these centers http://www.onlinewbc.gov/wbc.pdf\n\nGood luck!\nIsabel Isidro\nFor information on starting a business, visit http://www.powerhomebiz.com
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You have a good proposition.  Now do the planning.  You will need capital and since you are a non-profit you can approach community businesses and ask for support in the way of money, materials, property and the like.  \n\nYou can also do grant research on the web to apply for monies available for your endeavor.  And be prepared for hard work and road blocks.  There is often very vocal opposition in community organizing.\n\nIt helps to find others of like minds and enlist their aid.  Such as teachers, professors, political organizers and local and state politicians.\n\nGood luck.\n\nPeace.
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You can go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) http://www.cfda.gov and Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov - these are two sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants. Browse through the listings and see if you can find any grant that would support your purposes. \n\nIn the instructions at Grants.gov, you have to first go to CFDA to find out the grant number that you qualify. You can search CFDA various ways (by grant number, by keyword, etc.). You can find grant programs by category -- here are the lists of grants under Home Buying/Homeownership http://12.46.245.173/pls/portal30/CATALOG.FIND_GRANT_PROGRAM_TXT.SHOW?p_arg_names=func_cat_cd&p_arg_values=ML  Check if any applies to you\n\nTo make searching easier, Housing and Urban Development HUD has a list of housing grants http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/grants/fundsavail.cfm - though I have NOT seen any grants available for first time homeowners.\n\nEven if you buy books on "how to get grants" or list that supposedly has information on grants -- all of them are mere rehash of what CFDA has, albeit packaged differently.\n\nNote though that these grants generally support non-profit organizations, intermediary lending institutions, and state and local governments. Most of the federal grants are given to specific target groups with specific requirements (e.g. minority business owners involved in transportation related contracts emanating from DOT - Grant#20.905 Disadvantaged Business Enterprises Short Term Lending Program. Individuals especially for personal purposes are not eligible for federal grants. \n\nGrants are also often given to non profit groups or organizations involved in training or other similar activities (grant 59.043 Women's Business Ownership Assistance that are given to those who will create women's business center that will train women entrepreneurs \n\nhttp://www.cfda.gov\nhttp://www.grants.gov\nhttp://gtionline.fdncenter.org\nhttp://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol66/grants.htm\nhttp://www.sba.gov/expanding/grants.html
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You should also try you county government. They don't do a lot of advertising, but they do offer development programs. the USDA (Yes, the United States Dairy Association) offer aid for people willing to move to low population areas.\n\nI would be curious to know why you are looking for a grant aside from the obvious.
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What are you good at doing? Maybe you can turn that into a business. You say you are a mother, would you like to run a day care for other mothers who work outside their homes? Good luck in whatever you do!
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You can go to  your local SCORE office http://www.score.org/ - they are a group of volunteers who offer for free mentorship and give advice to small business owners. They are well experienced professionals and retirees who have years of experience in launching and growing a small business.\n\nYour local Small business development center = go to your favorite search engine and search for "[your state] SBDC"\n\nIf you are a woman, you can also go to your local Women's Business Center. Here is a PDF file of state-by-state locations of these centers http://www.onlinewbc.gov/wbc.pdf\n\nYou can also network and join in your local business groups such as Chamber of Commerce. By being actively involved in the organization, you are more likely to find someone who can give you guidance in your business.
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If you have money to invest you can advertise yourself (in a local radio or newspaper). But you can have yourself recognized using public relations and networking (if you use it right you can have great results) as well.\n\nMoreover, there are companies that can organize local outdoor campaigns (face to face direct marketing) and they get paid only for the customers that they bring you.\n\nOther ideas are: Be sponsor of a local event, distribute flyers and brochures, get some clients write testimonials about your service and products and let word-of-mouth work for you.\n\nFor more proposals you need to be more specific and include more details about your field and your company…
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Take one step at a time.\n\nFirst, you need a plan, like starting a business.  You already have a vision of the operations.  You also need to determine the location and the cost of building, renting or buying.  Identify all licenses and qualifications that you will need.  Estimate the number of employees, if any, that will be required and how much they will be paid.  Estimate other expenses and plot them out on a spreadsheet.\n\nThen you need to look into funding.  Inquire into local, state and federal agencies to see if there are any grants available for your type of operation.  Some governmental agencies who are charged with caring for orphans may even be willing to outsource.  Also, look into private funding through foundations.  If a large capital outlay will be required upfront, say to build the home, then you may need financing.\n\nOnce you feel your planning is complete, then you will need an attorney who is familiar with 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations.  You want to make sure that your non-profit corporation will be tax exempt.\n\nAfter your non-profit is incorporated, then you will be ready to raise funds, get financing, buy or rent property, get licensed and start caring for children and animals, while at the same time earning a living doing what you love to do.
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If there's very little industry in an area, more than likely the area will be rural farmland.  And farming is usually not profitable, so hiring work is out of the question.  The cheapest solution then is having a large family to do all the farm work, gaining profits on farming and losing nothing on managing the farm.
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You need to go straight to the power.  Talk to your principle and if that dont work go to the board of ed. in your town.  You need to have a lot of people interested(enough to make a team).
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Go on the internet and look up all the local and federal small business grants.\nFor example, you can get a grants for opening a business if you are a woman.  If can a grant from the government for opening a business in a low to medium income neighborhood.  So much to list.  Look up business grants.