4.12.00 ARC comes to Haywood to push entrepreneurship By Scott McLeod Leaders from 15 states and Canada gathered at Haywood Community College for two days this week to learn how entrepreneurship training can benefit local economies.
REAL works with public schools and community colleges in the state to offer entrepreneur training.
Tom Hunter, the executive director of the 13-state ARC, said the goal of entrepreneurship training is to empower people by giving them choices that perhaps they did not know existed. Folks have a lot of dreams, and we've got to help these people realize them. That's what we're about. Hunter said an early success story convinced ARC officials of the potential of entrepreneurship training. Levi Strauss in Tennessee closed a few years ago and with it when 2,300 jobs.