Search Results for:

Report
Report cover
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.

Report
natural disaster report cover
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.

Report
report cover
Rural Economic Disadvantage

USDA Bulletin/Fact Sheet provides on evidence of economic decline in rural communities based on federal data from 1979-1992.

Page
Thrive Rural Resource Center

Thrive Rural NAC
Felicia Lucky, a Black woman, headshot
Felecia Lucky

President, Black Belt Community Foundation

Case Study
Smiling colleagues sitting together in a meeting room.
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.

Report
report cover
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.

Page
balanced blocks icon
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.

Staff Member
Evan Zislis

Director of Community Engagement, Hurst Community Initiative

Research Brief
Connecting MSI and Rural Research report cover
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. 

Blog
Woman's hands holding a pen on a desk
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...

Report
Report cover
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.