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Rural Service Structure Characteristics
This document, "Rural Service Structure Characteristics," created by The Aspen Institute's Community Strategies Group, is a tool to help community foundations serving rural territories understand and compare different rural coverage structures.
Rural Family Economic Success: A Community Action Idea Book
This document, "STRENGTHENING RURAL FAMILIES: A COMMUNITY ACTION IDEABOOK," introduces the Rural Family Economic Success (RuFES) model, sponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and compiled by the Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group.
Hard Choices: Work and Child Care in Western Maine: A Study of Family Day Care in Rural Communities
This 1991 study, "Hard Choices: Work and Child Care in Western Maine," by Linda A. Wilcox of Coastal Enterprises, Inc., examines the challenges and characteristics of child care in rural Western Maine, specifically focusing on the Dixfield area. The study highlights that, despite growing awareness of child care's importance, rural families' needs are often overlooked.
Agenda: Rural Telecommunications Initiative Advisory Committee Meeting; Rural Telecommunications Initiative Request for Proposal
This file outlines the Rural Telecommunications Initiative (RTI), a program proposed by the Aspen Institute's Rural Economic Policy Program in collaboration with The Ford Foundation and MDC, Inc., and submitted to Apple Computer, Inc. on May 4, 1990.
Through the Revolving Door: An Analysis of Rural Wastewater Facility Financing
This report, Through the Revolving Door: An Analysis of Rural Wastewater Facility Financing, by the Center for Community Change, examines the challenges rural communities face in financing wastewater facilities. It highlights the impact of the 1987 Water Quality Act, which replaced the EPA Construction Grants program with State Revolving Funds (SRFs), shifting from grants to loans.
Pioneers of Progress: Policy Entrepreneurs and Community Development, Volume I
This report, "Pioneers of Progress: Policy Entrepreneurs and Community Development, Volume One," examines the role of non-governmental organizations in shaping state economic development policy in the U.S., particularly in the early 1990s.
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.
Rural Revitalization and Telecommunications: A Study of Four Communities
This file, focuses on how telecommunications can contribute to rural revitalization in the United States, particularly concerning economic development and social services. T
Strategies for Rural Social Service Organization and Delivery
This monograph, “Strategies for Rural Social Service Organization and Delivery,” by Ronald C. Faas, James C. Barron, and Gary W....
Demographic Aspects of the Changing Rural Labor Force
This report, "Demographic Aspects of the Changing Rural Labor Force" by Daniel T. Lichter (1991), provides an overview of the challenges facing the rural labor force in America, particularly in the 1980s, and proposes a research agenda for the 1990s. The introduction highlights the shift from optimism in the 1970s to a "new economic reality" in the 1980s for rural America, marked by recession, the "farm crisis," increased global competition, and a return to rural outmigration and slow employment growth.
Perspectives on Recent Demographic Change in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America
This file, by William H. Frey, examines demographic changes in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan America, particularly focusing on the "nonmetropolitan turnaround" of the 1970s and its reversal in the 1980s.