Welcome to the TCRE - dedicated to creating, growing, and retaining jobs and wealth in rural Texas by connecting entrepreneurs and their communities with capital, management, and leadership resources.

Important items to the right:

   Announcements

   Entrepreneurship newsletter subscription link

   Texas Eship discussion group link

contains additional rural business and economic development programs, projects, publications, and software that pertain primarily to agriculture and agribusiness issues including ag diversification, value-added, alternative ag, and traditional ag enterprises.

Thank you for joining the TCRE family.  These are challenging times in rural Texas.  Hopefully this site will provide at least some of the assistance that will help folks start and grow businesses and pursue community resources and economic development where you live and work.  

Business, community, and economic development information is extremely plentiful on the internet.  This site is not designed to have all the answers.  Rather, our purpose is to add value to other sites, fill in the gaps as we see them, and help you utilize more fully the information you find.  Our main role is to help you make sense of the vast knowledge base that supports entrepreneurs, to help you recognize best practices that might be useful in your communities, and to assist you in making wise decisions that will help be more effective economic developers.

Assistance from TCRE Resource Providers

The collaborating partners of TCRE will provide individualized assistance to business owners and managers and community leaders as much as possible.  Some services will be fee-based and some will not depending on the individual or group providing the assistance and what type of assistance is requested.  To request assistance:

Businesses

General assistance:  complete a Business Profile and submit to TCRE.  This will initiate communication with TCRE who will address directly your request or will link you up with the appropriate resources that will respond to your needs.

Available versions: MS Word 2003   PDF Format

Communities

General assistance:  complete a Community Assistance Request and submit to TCRE.  This will initiate communication with TCRE resource providers who will address directly your request or will link you up with the appropriate public or private entity that will respond to your needs.

Available versions: MS Word (CommAssist.doc) PDF format (CommAssist.pdf)