Enterprise Facilitation

In 1986, Ernesto Sirolli began learning how to empower communities to take responsibility for their own economic and community development. Person-centered rather than program-centered, and bottom-up rather than top-down, Enterprise Facilitation works by transforming passion, skill, and motivation into viable local businesses.

Ernesto Sirolli

New: Supporting passionate people on their own terms reviews the Enterprise Facilitation projects in Baker and Wallowa counties in northeast Oregon.

Speech by Ernesto Sirolli summarizes the origin, philosophy, and practice of Enterprise Facilitation. Patterns of Choice, 1999.

Ripples from the Zambezi: Passion, Entrepreneurship, and the Rebirth of Local Economies. Ernesto Sirolli's book is the best overview of Enterprise Facilitation and how it was developed. A short review by Peter Donovan.

User forum on Enterprise Facilitation A lively interchange between practitioners, advocates, and skeptics.

Institution or Association? A basic choice for community efforts.

Enterprise Facilitation projects in northeast Oregon. Managing Wholes newsletter, July 2001.

How Hastings, Minnesota (USA) created full-time jobs for US $3,000 apiece. Peter Donovan, Patterns of Choice, 1999.

On site at two Enterprise Facilitation projects in Canada. Patterns of Choice, 2001.

Economic development from the bottom up by Peter Donovan. How and why Wallowa and Baker counties in northeast Oregon, USA adopted Enterprise Facilitation. Oregon Business, 2000.

Summary of Wallowa County Business Facilitation, an Enterprise Facilitation project in northeast Oregon.

A rural northeast Oregon community's experience with Enterprise Facilitation. By Peter Donovan.

Why Stevens County, Washington, got interested in Enterprise Facilitation. Peter Donovan, The Wallowa County Chieftain., 1999.

Partnership between Washington State University (USA)/Kellogg project and the Sirolli Institute. Plus synergy between Holistic Management and Enterprise Facilitation in Stevens County, Washington (USA). By Peter Donovan, Patterns of Choice, 1998.

What is civic capital? An August 2001 article from The New York Times.

Links

Sirolli Institute website. The Institute teaches practitioners and communities this responsive and person-centered method. A Microsoft Word document with commonly asked questions about Enterprise Facilitation.

Updated 20 October 2002

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