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PENA CF,nt-E,r 25 .. _ incubation I addition to continuing the services already provided, during the first year of the new center, we will develop the capacity to focus the cooperative spirit on the development of community partnership enterprises. The first of these, a catering operation, should begin to help support the center even in this initial year. The incubator planned will enable the development of sophisticated, green and community building enterprises that will attract residents from the wider area from Homestead to Eubanks. Strategic Alliances Th.e RENA neighborhood center has developed many important strategic alliances and is planning many more. Its relationship with the Campus Y has provided the neighborhood with invaluable resources for tutoring, the garden and our events. Our partnerships with the Orange County Board of Commissioners (BOCC), the Town of . Chapel Hill, and the Town of Carrboro as well as members of the wider Orange County, North Carolina community, the Landowners Group, Neighborhood Group, Chapel Hill Small Area Plan Task Force, and Enhancement Task Force has all helped us both understand what we need to do and develop action plans to do it. Our close alliance with Habitat for Humanity has enabled to entire community to come together and plan for our future. Our partnership with the UNC Public Policy Clinic has allowed us to begin developing the business skills we will need for the community partnership incubator. • 13 _ . CONFIDENTIAL - DO NOT DISSEMINATE, This business plan contains confidential, trade-secret information and is shared only with the understanding that you will not share its contents or ideas with third parties scvi:Thout .1•1e express written consent of the pLan author.