Since 2005, The U.S. Russia Center for Entrepreneurship (CFE) has licensed and offers to Russian entrepreneurs the FastTrac Planning business planning program. FastTrac programs are resources for entrepreneurs that have been developed by and with hundreds of successful entrepreneurs who have shared their knowledge, insights, and stories so that others might learn from them. In 1998 FastTrac won the Small Business Administration`s Model of Excellence Award for Entrepreneurial Education.

CFE offers FastTrac Planning as a nine module, 32.5 hour course that allows entrepreneurs to take a hard look at all aspects of their company and write a new business plan to address present and future needs and to help them manage their company on a daily basis. Entrepreneurs learn with a group of peers, entrepreneurs like themselves, who are working to improve their businesses. They also work with certified facilitators, people with real entrepreneurial business experience, who understand the challenges of operating and growing entrepreneurial business ventures. In this supportive environment, they incubate new business ideas, uncover areas that need reinforcing, and establish a foundation from which to make future decisions.