Wealth Building
Manufacturing Assistance Program Needs Assessment Guide: Volume 2: Firm-Level Needs Assessment Approachment
This document, "Manufacturing Assistance Program Needs Assessment Guide, Volume 2: Firm-Level Needs Assessment Approaches," published by The Aspen Institute in 1995, outlines various methods for manufacturing assistance programs to assess the needs of individual firms.The guide emphasizes that needs assessments are crucial for effectively allocating program resources.
From The Bottom Up: Toward a Strategy for Income and Employment Generation Among the Disadvantaged
This Aspen Institute report, "FROM THE BOTTOM UP: Toward a Strategy for Income and Employment Generation Among the Disadvantaged," by Fred O'Regan and Maureen Conway (March 1993), details an interim study on local programs aimed at poverty alleviation and employment generation in the United States.
Business Finance as a Tool for Development (final book)
This file, titled "BUSINESS FINANCE AS A TOOL FOR DEVELOPMENT," is a 1992 publication by The Aspen Institute's State Policy Program. Authored by Deborah Markley with Katharine McKee, it examines the evolution and best practices of state development finance programs. The document highlights the shift in state economic development strategies from "smokestack-chasing" (subsidized relocation) in the 1960s-70s to fostering homegrown businesses in the 1980s.
Exploding Myths about Rural Entrepeneurship
This file is a research paper titled "Exploding Myths About Rural Entrepreneurship" by Terry F. Buss and Mark Popovich. It challenges common misconceptions about rural entrepreneurship using survey data from 1,428 start-up entrepreneurs and employment tax files from five states: Iowa, North Dakota, Michigan, Maine, and Arkansas.
Exploding Myths about Rural Entrepreneurship
Report provides insight into five case studies in Iowa, North Dakota, Maine, Arkansas, and Michigan that show disparate rural economies in order to better develop strategies for rural new business entrepreneurship.
A Common Bond: Issues and Responses in South Carolina’s Coastal Tourism Development
This paper represents effort by the Palmetto Conservation Foundation to bring issues in coastal tourism in South Carolina into focus.
National Trust’s Main Street Program as Rural Tool
Paper highlights the Main Street Program of the National Trust for Historical Preservation.
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.
Studying Communities in Transition: A Case Study of Superior, Nebraska
Case study examines communities in transition in order to understand health community success in small towns across the Midwest.
Pioneers of Progress: Policy Entrepreneurs and Community Development, Volume II: The Network of Pioneer organizations
This document, "Pioneers of Progress: Policy Entrepreneurs and Community Development, Volume Two: The Network of Pioneer Organizations," published by Jobs for the Future in April 1991, profiles various non-profit and community-based organizations across the United States.
Sundown on the Sunbelt?: Growth Without Development in the Rural South
This report analyzes economic development in the rural South, focusing on North Carolina.
The Slowdown in Nonmetropolitan Development: The Impact of Economic Forces and the Affect on the Distribution of Wages
This report, “The Slowdown in Nonmetropolitan Development: The Impact of Economic Forces and the Affect on the Distribution of Wages”...