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Economic Development

How To Organize a Rural Action Infrastructure

Discussion with rural leaders about working together across interests and regions to take advantage of opportunities.

BY Community Strategies Group

Blog Post

06.13.2023
Economic Development

Translating Federal Opportunities into Local Resources: Ada Jobs Foundation

This short case study has insights and tips on how rural communities with limited staffing and resources can understand, prepare for, and compete for finite federal funds.

BY Community Strategies Group

Publication

01.30.2023
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
Economic Development

My Turning Points

Tailoring economic and community development efforts to the assets, actors and goals of specific communities and regions is critically important.

BY Janet Topolsky

Blog Post

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
Economic Development

Rural Development Practice and Trends

What must happen for economic development to foster a more prosperous, healthier, equitable and environmentally sustainable rural America? This scan of field practices and trends advances our answer to this question.

BY Brian Dabson & 1 more

Publication

08.09.2021
US Government

Electoral College and the Rural-Urban Divide

Much has been said about the influence that rural voters and rural states on the outcome of national elections. Some have proposed elimination of the Electoral College as a solution to this perceived problem. We question the wisdom and potential efficacy of this proposed quick fix for what ails us.

BY John Molinaro, & 1 more

Blog Post

02.01.2021
Economic Development

Equitable Recovery and Resilience in Rural America

Quality of life is largely determined by the characteristics of places, for better or worse. Differences between places drive inequalities in economic opportunity, educational attainment and health outcomes. A Thrive Rural Brief by Brian Dabson.

BY Brian Dabson

Publication

12.08.2020
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