Using funds from the USDA Rural Development Rural Business Opportunity Grant program and from the Northern Maine Finance Corporation, the Northern Maine Development Commission will fund training sessions designed to assist potential entrepreneurs who would like to start a new business that has been determined to be a need or a potentially sustainable business in Caribou.
This series of training sessions is part of an initiative designed to establish a public-private partnership aimed at linking entrepreneurs with investors to grow business and jobs in Aroostook and Washington Counties.
For additional information about this initiative, please visit:
Northern Maine Development Commission: Caribou Entrepreneurial Program
Media report:
Bangor Daily News: Unique program to bring business to Caribou (16 JUN 12)
Background information:
Northern Maine Development Commission
Northern Maine Finance Corporation
Northern Forest Center: Northern Border Regional Commission
US Department of Agriculture Rural Development: Rural Business Opportunity Grants
New England City & Town News Notes 