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Economic Development

Thrive Rural Framework Overview

The Thrive Rural Framework helps you take stock, target action, and gauge progress on rural prosperity. We invite everyone involved in rural development to use it to spark new ways of thinking and acting to move communities, regions, and systems toward equitable rural prosperity.

BY Community Strategies Group

Publication

03.07.2022
Economic Development

Principal Ideas: Rural Capital

This Thrive Rural Field Perspective offers a call to action to restructure and reorient public, private and philanthropic capital in ways that increase their impact across rural America.

BY Community Strategies Group

Publication

12.16.2021
Economic Development

Native Nation Building

When tribes center sovereignty, Indigenous institutions and culture in their development processes they increase the probability of reaching their development goals and can build community wealth that is more in line with tribal values and lifeways.

BY Stephanie Gutierrez & 1 more

Publication

11.15.2021
Economic Development

This Is What Capacity Looks Like

Learn key capacities that need to be carefully and intentionally strengthened so that well-intentioned organizations and Native nations can more effectively grow sustainable, equitable communities.

Event

11.09.2021
US Economy

Rural Development and Rural Health Practices

This first in the Thrive Rural Field Perspective Series highlights how accelerating connections between health and development can propel rural prosperity.

BY Brian Dabson & 1 more

Publication

11.01.2021
Community Development

Cultural Competence Secrets to Success

Hear how providers are learning cultural competency to better connect with and understand the worldview of the immigrant families they serve.

Event

10.20.2021
Economic Development

Turning Points

This book chapter highlights six action principles “do economic development differently”—that shifts from the risky “winner takes all” approach that is heavily reliant on a business-recruitment strategy to a “let’s all win” approach of building on a region’s existing, underutilized assets.

BY Janet Topolsky

Publication

10.20.2021
Public Health

Rural Public Health Practice and Trends

What are the pathways of influence for public health and health care to foster more prosperous, equitable and sustainable communities across rural America? This field scan provides an understanding of the state of relevant health fields in the rural United States.

BY University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute

Publication

10.05.2021
Economic Development

Shared Prosperity: An Equitable Rural Economy

Watch the video to hear stories of power and capacity building at the community level and take away lessons on how rural places have united to become more inclusive and economically vibrant.

Event

09.28.2021
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