Rural Development Hubs

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CAPTURING SHARED IMPACTS OF THE PARTNERS FOR RURAL TRANSFORMATION

Urban Institute

With a goal to transform the fortunes and futures of rural and Native communities, the Partners for Rural Transformation (PRT) centers community needs and hopes in its work.

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Community Strategies Group Thrive Rural, Rural Development: A Scan of Field Practice and Trends, by Brian Dabson and Chitra Kumar
Rural Development: Field Practice and Trends

What must happen for economic development to foster a more prosperous, healthier, equitable and environmentally sustainable rural America? This scan...

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Still Open for Business: Working with Minority-Owned Rural Firms through the Pandemic

Jul. 22nd, 2020, 2PM

STILL OPEN FOR BUSINESS POWERPOINT Racially and ethnically diverse populations comprise 21 percent of rural America—but produced 83 percent of...

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A Few Things to Know About Rural America

Too often, people lump all of rural America into one “flyover-country” stereotype. This blog shares a few truths worth knowing about rural America.

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Thrive Rural: Connecting Development, Health, & Opportunity

One in five people in the U.S. lives in a rural or tribal community. Many rural places are dynamic and...

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Rural Development Hubs: Strengthening America’s Rural Innovation Infrastructure

Rural Development Hubs are a specific set of intermediaries that are doing development differently in rural America. They are main players advancing an asset-based, wealth-building, approach to rural community and economic development.

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Collaboration and Innovation for a Better Rural West

Insights from rural leaders working across divided local public opinion, fractured economies, confusing policy and regulation, and litigation to forge productive local partnerships that benefit rural communities and their surrounding landscapes.

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Rural Development Hubs Executive Summary

In this brief we preview initial topline findings from the Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group’s interviews with more than 40...

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HOW DO RURAL COMMUNITIES IN THE US IMPLEMENT COLLECTIVE IMPACT?

FSG

FSG’s blog explores how Collective Impact—an approach where organizations from different sectors agree to solve a specific social problem by using a common agenda, aligning their efforts, and using common measures of success—has been implemented successfully across multiple types of geographies.

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Communities in the Lead: The Northwest Rural Development Sourcebook

This report, titled "Communities in the Lead: The Northwest Rural Development Sourcebook" by Harold L. Fossum, published in January 1993, focuses on empowering community-based revitalization efforts in rural areas of the Northwest. The sourcebook was supported by the Ford Foundation and the Aspen Institute's State Rural Policy Program.

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Rural “Enterprise Development Intermediaries”

Report highlights the unique role intermediaries play in the development process in rural communities.

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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.