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Global Economic Recovery: The Path Forward

Global economic recovery with experts Zoë Baird, Penny Pritzker, Lawrence H. Summers and Robert Zoellick

BY Aspen Community Programs

Video

07.21.2022
Economic Development

Defining Rural Development Success

Four rural development practitioners share how we can better define rural development success.

BY Community Strategies Group

Publication

06.06.2022
Economic Development

Procurement lessons from the world’s biggest purchaser

When we write about supplier diversity models that should be scaled, adopted, and adapted, our first inclination is usually to focus on state and local gov ...

BY Bruce Katz & 2 more

Blog Post

03.21.2022
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
Economic Development

Fostering an Inclusive Recovery: Building Back Better Through EDA’S Regional Build Back Better Programs

Aspen Institute Latinos and Society (AILAS) hosted the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development, Alejandra Y. Castillo and Co-F ...

BY Aspen Latino Business & Entrepreneurship Initiative

Video

02.04.2022
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
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