Building Regional Strength: Key Strategies
Insights and recommendations to build healthy, thriving rural & Indigenous regions.
Rural Knowledge Center
Rural Resources, Insights, and Collaborations by Aspen CSG and Partners
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Economic Development Strategies of the Great Plains
Paper seeks to examine how state government in Great Plains states see their role in economic development.
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A Common Bond: Issues and Responses in South Carolina’s Coastal Tourism Development
This paper represents effort by the Palmetto Conservation Foundation to bring issues in coastal tourism in South Carolina into focus.
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A Case Study of Brush, Colorado
This document contains a case study of Brush, Colorado, wherein researchers examined local community health through field research and qualitative surveys.
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National Trust’s Main Street Program as Rural Tool
Paper highlights the Main Street Program of the National Trust for Historical Preservation.
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The Changing Great Plains Economy: New Directions for Economic Policy
Paper examines the economic changes at work in the Great Plains.
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Overview of Change in America’s New Economy
Document serves an interim report of Phase 1 of the Great Plains Project.
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Rural Strategies & State Development Budget
Paper provides insights from 50 collected interviews with rural development administrators and practitioners in Texas.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.