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
Report
DO COMMUNITY BENEFITS AGREEMENTS BENEFIT COMMUNITIES?
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Community benefits agreement (CBA) campaigns have become commonplace nationwide as a way to address income inequality in poor neighborhoods. The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston explored the actual effects of CBA campaigns on communities.
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
Growing Local Philanthropy: The Role and Reach of Community Foundations
This report, "Growing Local Philanthropy: The Role and Reach of Community Foundations," presents the findings of a 2004 survey conducted by the Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group on geographic component funds (GCFs) within U.S. community foundations.
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
Manufacturing Assistance Program Needs Assessment Guide: Volume 1: Regional Needs Assessment Approaches
This document, “Manufacturing Assistance Program Needs Assessment Guide, Volume 1: Regional Needs Assessment Approaches,” published by The Aspen Institute Community...
Report
Manufacturing Assistance Program Needs Assessment Guide: Volume 2: Firm-Level Needs Assessment Approachment
This document, "Manufacturing Assistance Program Needs Assessment Guide, Volume 2: Firm-Level Needs Assessment Approaches," published by The Aspen Institute in 1995, outlines various methods for manufacturing assistance programs to assess the needs of individual firms.The guide emphasizes that needs assessments are crucial for effectively allocating program resources.