Four Principles for Fostering Community Well-Being with Asset-Based Development
Insights and recommendations to foster rural & Indigenous well-being with asset based development.
Rural Knowledge Center
Rural Resources, Insights, and Collaborations by Aspen CSG and Partners
Report
Event
Reframing Natural Resource Economies
Apr. 20th, 2017, 11AM
This third America’s Rural Opportunity panel will focus on rural innovators who steward the nations’ natural resources and use those resources to create jobs and businesses. These innovators are rethinking and rebuilding rural economies around principles of sustainability.
Event
Local Innovation Strengthening Rural Economies
Feb. 10th, 2017, 12PM
America’s Rural Opportunity is a six-part series of panel conversations that invites policymakers, economic and community development practitioners, and business and philanthropic leaders to engage in real dialogue around advancing a rural opportunity agenda.
Blog
HOW DO RURAL COMMUNITIES IN THE US IMPLEMENT COLLECTIVE IMPACT?
FSG
FSG’s blog explores how Collective Impact—an approach where organizations from different sectors agree to solve a specific social problem by using a common agenda, aligning their efforts, and using common measures of success—has been implemented successfully across multiple types of geographies.
Tool
Measuring Community Capacity Building Workbook
This is a workbook focuses on improving the ability of individuals, organizations, businesses, and government in their community to come together, learn, make well-reasoned decisions about the community’s present and future, and work together to carry out those decisions.
Report
Margins to Mainstream: Community Foundations Advancing Family Economic Success
Report serves as a framework for community foundation leaders and partners attending the Margins to Mainstream: Community Foundations Advancing Economic Success Peer-Exchange Workshop.
Report
Building Engines for Rural Endowment Framework
Framework serves as a guide to help people who lead community foundations think about and act strategically to build more and better permanently endowed assets focused on vitalizing and sustaining rural areas, rural issues, and rural populations.
Report
Rural Family Economic Success: Community Action Workbook
Guidebook is intended to promote Rural Family Economic Success (RuFES) model for helping community development practitioners and policymakers consider ways in which low-income working families can improve their livelihood.
Report
Community Economic Development in Tupelo (1999)
It would be easy, contemplating the riveting story of Tupelo’s growth since 1940, to imagine that it is unique, engendered...
Report
Ten Essential Ingredients: Designing State Programs That Work In Rural Communities
This file, "TEN ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS: DESIGNING STATE PROGRAMS THAT WORK IN RURAL COMMUNITIES," is a 1995 guidebook from the Public Sector Development Foundation. It focuses on how states can enhance local capacity for community and economic development in rural areas by using ten essential ingredients for program design, delivery, and development.
Report
Rural Work Force Development: Issues and Strategies for Rural Leaders
Document provides an overview of issues related to work force development and examples of promising strategies for dealing with these issues.
Report
Community Builders: Revitalizing Rural America
Report entails Community Builders program sponsored by the Nebraska Department of Economic Development to help Nebraska towns move into the future.
Report
Tsunami, Phoenix, Tequila Sunset, & Fedex Scenarios
Remarks by Mil Duncan on RSS Session "Rural America, Rural Women, and Public Policy."