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Economic Development

Systems-Level Building Blocks

This piece of the Thrive Rural Framework, the Systems-Level Building Blocks, includes driving forces and conditions that are in larger systems outside the direct control of individual rural communities or regions.

BY Community Strategies Group

Publication

03.07.2022
Economic Development

Local-Level Building Blocks

This piece of the Thrive Rural Framework, the Local-Level Building Blocks, includes conditions on the ground in rural places and regions that individual rural communities or regions can act on by themselves.

BY Community Strategies Group

Publication

03.07.2022
Economic Development

The Foundational Element

The Foundational Element of the Thrive Rural Framework requires identifying and dismantling historical and ongoing discriminatory practices that disadvantage rural people and places.

BY Community Strategies Group

Publication

03.07.2022
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
US Economy

Tapping Rural Innovation for Our Clean Energy Future

We need to reconsider dated stereotypes regarding which communities are leading the environmental movement.

BY Chitra Kumar, & 1 more

Blog Post

03.25.2021