About FERAD

The Foundation for Entrepreneurial Research and Development (FERAD) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve the quality of life and well being of individuals through promoting entrepreneurship as a driver to economic and community development.

Because our world and our environment is constantly changing and communication is global, opportunities for bringing together people, process and technology in the advancement of economic and community development initiatives are numerous. FERAD meets these opportunities by contiunually empowering individuals, communities and societies to foster entrepreneurial education, creation and growth.

What We Do

FERAD fosters entrepreneurship by:

• Hosting Public Service Entrepreneurial Education Communities:
• Business Utility Zone Gateway
• buzVR
• myExpertNet
• myWomanBiz
• VetBizGo
• myYouthBiz
• Improving Entrepreneurial Educational Curriculum and Training
• Career Development
• Self-Employment
• Small Business Development
• Business Management
• Business Growth
• eLearning
• Facilitating Public/Private Collaboration and Trusted Networking
• America's Entrepreneurial Education Network

The People We Serve

No one is more motivated or better equipped to foster skill development and economic independence than the person whose life and future is at stake. And no one is smarter about bringing about the transformative change and economic development support than the nation whose communities and people will benefit from such incentives.

At FERAD, our role is to help catalyze the economic advancement and shared prosperity that communities aspire to. It is their potential, their energy, and their ideas that ultimately serve to overcome the challenges they alone face. Our job is to research, develop and make available new and improved resources that will ultimately inspire innovation and drive venture creation, growth and sustainability.

Thank you,
Dr. Deborah A. Osgood, President | FERAD