Creating Sustainable Neighborhood Developers

ComNet is the Creator and Owner of the program “Creating Neighborhood Developers”.

This is a program created by Eric Porter and co-creator, The EDA Center for Entrepreneurs in the College of Business at Southern University, Baton Rouge; where under of the curriculum "Creating Sustainable Neighborhood Developers" is in its 7th generation of instructional teaching. This program is an eight-week curriculum that teaches anybody how to become a neighborhood developer. We have graduated over 240 students within the last 4 years. The students have to pass an exam after six week and upon passing, they will receive a “Creating Sustainable Neighborhood Developer” certificate, which is recognize by The Louisiana Housing Corporation. We are a member of the University Economic Development Association  (UEDA) and the program won the overall best program at the UEDA conference in October, 2018. We are proud of this national award-winning program.