{"id":62733,"date":"2015-02-12T13:17:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T19:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=62733"},"modified":"2015-02-13T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T18:00:05","slug":"debts-discusses-usda-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2015\/02\/debts-discusses-usda-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"DEBTS discusses USDA funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"s1\">Recently, <\/span><span class=\"s2\">Delta State University\u2019s unique DEBTS program (Debt Education for Business Transformation and Sustainability) attended a roundtable discussion hosted by the Delta Regional Authority and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Greenwood, Miss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Abe Hudson, DEBTS program director, spoke about the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">federally funded<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0program, which is an\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">initiative<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> to help entrepreneurs in the Mississippi Delta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">DEBTS was among four other programs that presented at the discussion, which included nearly 100 people from across the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThe event gave<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> us<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> an opportunity to share with the <\/span><span class=\"s1\">new <\/span><span class=\"s2\">USDA Rural Development Undersecretary, Lisa Mensah, how the funds we receive through USDA are being utilized <\/span><span class=\"s1\">to assist<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> Mississippi Delta<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> entrepreneurs<\/span><span class=\"s2\">,\u201d said Hudson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Delta State\u2019s College of Business has received funding for two years to assist entrepreneurs in a four-county area \u2014B olivar, Washington, Coahoma and Sunflower. The primary focus is to assist entrepreneurs to become more financially literate. The program is tasked to select 12 entrepreneurs per year to assist. However, over the past two and a half years, the program has consulted with almost 300 clients from across the Mississippi Delta Region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThe DEBTS Program is an important initiative because of <\/span><span class=\"s1\">its focus<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> on the lifeblood of the economic ecosystem \u2014 small business owners,&#8221; added Hudson. &#8220;<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joining in the effort to assist small business owners is the Delta Regional Authority.<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> USDA and DRA\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">have partnered together to<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> focus on small business development. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">&#8220;I <\/span><span class=\"s1\">have a lot of respect <\/span><span class=\"s2\">for the efforts they have made across the <\/span><span class=\"s1\">eight<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> state area<\/span><span class=\"s1\">s<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> they serve. With DRA and USDA working together, Mississippi truly can attain a higher level of entrepreneurial achievement. It provides an opportunity for two influential organizations in the Mississippi Delta to work towards improving the state from the ground up.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Learn more about the DEBTS program at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/college-of-business\/debts-program\/\">https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/college-of-business\/debts-program\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, Delta State University\u2019s unique DEBTS program (Debt Education for Business Transformation and Sustainability) attended a roundtable discussion hosted by the Delta Regional Authority and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":62735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,418,1087],"tags":[1410,1088,1090,1089],"class_list":["post-62733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-college-of-business","category-community-3","category-debts","tag-college-of-business","tag-debts-2","tag-delta-regional-authority","tag-usda"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62733"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62739,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62733\/revisions\/62739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}