Highland County Felter Partners with Mongolian Small Business Incubator

Date:  Tue, 2012-03-06

MONTEREY & CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA & ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA – March 6, 2012 – Lisa Jacenich has been producing textured art since 1997 and has become well known for her felting. Her work has shown up in private collections, fashion shows, and boutiques around the world. In 2011, Jacenich met up with Ken Dabkowski, M·CAM team member focusing on innovation literacy, which resulted in the connection between Jacenich and Tsend Enkhtuya through the Heritable Innovation Trust program in Mongolia (http://www.heritableinnovationtrust.org). This relationship has led to the development of three felting business incubators in the Uverkhangai Province in Mongolia. Through the implementation of mechanized felt processing, Jacenich and Enkhtuya hope to demonstrate how small businesses can work together to effect economic development. To read more about her project, see the attached news article (PDF).

To learn more about the history of this collaboration visit this link.