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What is REAL?
REAL stands for Rural Entrepreneurship through Action Learning. Virginia REAL Enterprises' state office, operated by the Lonesome Pine Office on Youth, works with selected rural high schools and community colleges to provide adults of all ages with the opportunity to become entrepreneurs.
The Lonesome Pine Office on Youth's REAL program is designed to assist and empower a person with entrepreneurial interests and abilities to plan and start a business or trade.
What is an Entrepreneur?
One definition of an entrepreneur is "a person who organizes and manages a business or trade." Other attributes often used to describe an entrepreneur are "a risk taker," "an innovator," and "a business minded person." Successful entrepreneurs come from both sexes and all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
What is the REAL Entrepreneurship Program?
The REAL program requires a commitment to starting a business. The program consists of two courses, REAL I and REAL II. Participants in REAL I will analyze the local community, decide on the actual businesses they intend to operate, develop a viable business plan to implement and seek funding from revolving loan funds.
In REAL II, participants who have started their enterprises will practice the skills they need to operate their businesses successfully and solve any management problems.
How will I learn to be an Entrepreneur?
Participants in REAL learn to be business owners and operators by doing! Through experiential learning you learn by actually being an entrepreneur instead of just studying entrepreneurship. Learning will take place in the classroom, entrepreneurship lab and out in the community with fellow participants and instructors.
Along with the nuts and bolts of the entrepreneurial process, the REAL curriculum focuses on critical thinking, creativity, persuasive communication, research and using technology effectively, thus reinforcing students abilities to find their own answers to their own questions.
Whether they teach adults or young children, teachers receive the tools and training they need to adapt REAL to their community's particular needs.
For more information on this program visit CFED/REAL Enterprises or complete the form below.
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