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
Case Study
Rural Strategies & State Development Budget
Paper provides insights from 50 collected interviews with rural development administrators and practitioners in Texas.
Report
Smart Firms in Small Towns: An Overview
This book provides overview of small to medium enterprises within the context of "third-wave" state economic development policy.
Case Study
Business Finance as a Tool for Development (book)
This book provides insight into successful development finance strategies, focusing on Linked deposit programs, loan guarantee and loan insurance programs, and business and industrial development corporations.
Case Study
Survey of the Future of the Plains
This report examines challenges facing Great Plains communities and presents strategies for success, based on interviews with local leaders and practitioners.
Report
Rural Revitalization & Telecommunications Study
This study seeks to examine common economic revitalization assumptions against the actual experience of the people living in the communities where some new applications of telecommunications services are based.
Case Study
Studying Communities in Transition: A Case Study of Superior, Nebraska
Case study examines communities in transition in order to understand health community success in small towns across the Midwest.
Report
Rural Development Councils: Preliminary Findings and Conclusions
Report reflects the experience of the eight Rural Development Councils initiated as part of the Federal Rural Initiative that provides a baseline of information on the organization and early development of the effort.
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Draft Report on Financial service Industries in Rural Areas
Draft report seeks to analyze effect of technological innovation and deregulation on financial services industries in rural areas.
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Rural Development Councils: Volume 2
Contains eight state case studies that have been developed to track the development of the federal-state initiative.
Report
Policy Proposals for Economic Development in the Rural South
Report produces a series of policy proposals designed to address the shortcomings and comparative disadvantages of rural Southern economic development.
Report
Piney Road: Work, Education, and The Re-Making of the Southern Family
This study, titled "PINEY ROAD: WORK, EDUCATION, AND THE RE-MAKING OF THE SOUTHERN FAMILY" by Jacqueline J. Saindon, examines how work, education, and family dynamics have shaped the lives of rural Southern families, particularly Black families in Gresham County, Georgia. The research, funded by the Rural Economic Policy Program of the Aspen Institute and Ford Foundation, focuses on twelve women who worked in the poultry industry.
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Rural Service Structure Characteristics
This document, "Rural Service Structure Characteristics," created by The Aspen Institute's Community Strategies Group, is a tool to help community foundations serving rural territories understand and compare different rural coverage structures.