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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
Economic Development

This Is What Capacity Looks Like: Building Development Muscle in Rural and Native Nation Communities

Event Resources: Download the Event Presentation:ROADS Capacity Presentation Thrive Rural Perspective: Na ...

BY Community Strategies Group

Video

11.30.2021
Economic Development

Working Together for Working Families: Investing in Whole Family Approaches

In Pascale Sykes Foundation's "Working Together for Working Families" podcast series, Ascend’s Marjorie Sims discusses the evolution of the two-generation approach (2Gen), shares why this approach to family empowerment works, and presents why resources allocated toward these efforts are as relevant as ever: Funding What Works: How Donors Can Invest in While Family Programs

BY Marjorie Sims

Of Interest

11.18.2021
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