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Strategies for State-supported Microenterprise Development Systems : Practitioner’s Role
Report examines the Center for Rural Affairs Rural Enterprise Assistant Project (REAP) in its partnership with Nebraska's Office of Economic Development.
Through Natural Disaster to Prosperity: A Call to Action
Need actionable steps in your equitable disaster preparedness or recovery work? This report highlights best practices from the field.
Rural Economic Disadvantage
USDA Bulletin/Fact Sheet provides on evidence of economic decline in rural communities based on federal data from 1979-1992.
Thrive Rural Resource Center
Felecia Lucky
President, Black Belt Community Foundation
Translating Federal Opportunities into Local Resources: Ada Jobs Foundation
This short case study has insights and tips on how rural communities with limited staffing and resources can understand, prepare for, and compete for finite federal funds.
Small Stakes Gambling in Rural Communities: Policy Implications for State Government
Report seeks to examine experiences of Deadwood, SD and Central City, Black Hawk, and Cripple Creek, CO communities in regards to gambling presences in order to foster and promote thoughtful state government policy on small stakes gambling.
Balance Development Goals
Local actions that concurrently strengthen a community’s infrastructure, economy, and natural environment to advance the sustainability and durability of all three.
Evan Zislis
Director of Community Engagement, Hurst Community Initiative
Connecting Minority-Serving institutions and Rural Research
Exploring the potential for MSIs to produce more rural research and integrate rural perspectives into established and developing rural-focused research systems.
Rural Capacity-Building Tips From and for Funders
On April 8, 2022, around 90 community and economic development practitioners and community members gathered at a Thrive Rural Open...
Form Without Substance, Past over Present: The Institutional Failure of National U.S. Rural Policy
Document summarizes what the author sees as a failure of rural policy at the federal level, as trapped in an agricultural policy domain.