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
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The Rural Poor: What We Know and What We Need to Know
Report examines gaps in adequate policy-oriented research on the rural poor and what can be done to resolve it.
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Laboring For Less: Working but Poor in Rural America
A profile of the working poor outside metropolitan areas, and an exploration of the factors that lie behind the increase over the past decade in the ranks of the working poor in nonmetro areas.
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Rural America in The Information Age: Telecommunications Policy for Rural Development
Paper underscores the potential role that the Telecommunications Industry can play in rural economic development through broad reaching enhancement of industries in various rural regions.
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Rural Poverty Telecommunications Initiative Project Summary
Documents provides summary of the Aspen Institute's Rural Economic Policy Program's Rural Poverty Telecommunications Initiative.
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The Impact of Tourism on Rural Women in the Southeast
Paper seeks to shed light on tourism industry jobs, much of which are overwhelmingly female (food servers, maids, and retail clerks).
Research Brief
The Case of Rural UDAG Grants
Document provides background into nature of Urban Development Action Grant Program (UDAG), differentiated from other programs in that the grants require letters of commitment from the developer and at least 2.5 dollars of private investment for every dollar of UDAG funds.
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How Family Farms Deal with Unexpected Financial Stress (final report)
This paper's purpose is to facilitate effective decision making by individual farm families, non-farm persons in rural communities, and local to national public policy makers as they considered their responses to the unexpected farm financial reversals of the 1980s.
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Job Creation, Business Growth and State Policy: Glimpses of the Third Wave
Paper seeks to analyze the role of entrepreneurship as a means of combining resources and adding value to institutions in order to improve public policy.
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Rural America and High Technology
Document explores impact of tech industry growth and Rural community capture of job gains.
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California Senate Concurrent Resolution No.34 – Relative to the state’s Hispanic population
Selection of California Senate Resolution discussing Hispanic population in California directed to Regents of the University of California.
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Community Development Organizations and Research: What Works and Why?
This paper seeks to improve general understanding of how some local and regional nonprofit, public interest organizations successfully use research to inform their rural development strategies.
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Building Engines for Rural Endowment: An RDP Thinking and Action Framework
This file, "Building Engines for Rural Endowment: An RDP Thinking and Action Framework," is a "beta-test" version (January 2003) from The Aspen Institute's Rural Development Philanthropy Learning Network. It serves as a guide for community foundations to strategically build permanently endowed assets focused on vitalizing rural areas.