Search Results for:

Report
report cover
Southern Regional Policy Center: A Prospectus

Prospectus serves as brief road map for the Southern Regional Policy Center at the University of North Carolina umbrella.

Blog
Group white water rafting
Outdoor Recreation Economies: Challenges & Opportunities

Outdoor recreation is driving new opportunities for local communities in many rural places. See ways to do economic development differently with rural recreation economies.

Thrive Rural NAC
Ines Polonius, a white woman, headshot
Ines Polonius

CEO, Communities Unlimited, inc.

Research Brief
report cover
U.S. Rural Demographic Trends in International Perspective; An Issue Brief

Purpose of brief is to identify some of the major priority issues for research on rural population change that are emerging outside the United States

Page
team standing together icon
Design for Everyone to Thrive

Local leaders intentionally design community and economic development efforts to improve outcomes for people disadvantaged due to historic or ongoing economic, racial, age, gender, or cultural discrimination.

Blog
Strategies to Address Rural Flooding

Insights from practitioners in rural places experiencing repeated disasters on what it will take to for rural communities to drive their own solutions.

Report
Reviving the Rural Factory: Automation & Work in the South

Full study on automation and automation related work in the southern United States.

Blog
People walking with children on their shoulders
Stewarding Land and Growing Rural Prosperity

Rural and Native communities have been stewarding the land for generations. Many are using new ways of growing nature and...

Staff Member
Chris Estes

Co-Executive Director

Report
report cover
Forwarding the Rural Development Agenda

Report serves as an intelligence gathering support document in order to suggest areas to focus capacity development efforts in terms of issues needing to be addressed, possible approaches and suggested target audiences for the Aspen Institute's Rural Development Program.

Page
League of Oregon Cities Annual Conference

Thanks for joining us at today's session!

Event
Demonstrator speaking into megaphone
Building Power Towards an Equitable Rural Economy

Oct. 13th, 2021, 11AM

Building power and capacity within groups on the economic and social margins is a crucial component for strong, healthy and economically diverse rural communities.