Funding & Capital Access
Annotated Resources for Measuring Rural Development Progress
This Annotated List of Resources for Measuring Rural Development Progress is part of Measure Up: A Call to Action. It was developed and...
Measure Up: Call to Action — Executive Summary
This is the Executive Summary for Measure Up: A Call to Action. It highlights six principles for measuring rural development progress to...
Defining Rural Development Success
There are no easy solutions for the many challenges that rural Americans face, but it’s clear that rural communities themselves...
Disaster Planning and Rural Resilience
Flooding, tornadoes, drought, wildfire, and other extreme weather events cause major disruption and damage wherever they occur and have potential...
HOW CONSISTENT CAPITAL FLOW CAN SAVE RURAL AMERICA
Partners for Rural Transformation
With current and anticipated funding already accounted for, take a look at how the Partners maximize capital flow to improve the livelihood of their service areas.
PATHWAYS TO SECURING RURAL FEDERAL FUNDING
The Ford Family Foundation
The Ford Family Foundation and Sequoia Consulting’s research analyzes the causes of inequitable access to public funds and develops recommendations to access public funding streams from federal and state governments.
THREE WAYS TO PROMOTE EQUITABLE RURAL INVESTMENTS
Urban Institute
Urban Institute highlights three ways practitioners, policymakers, and investors can use their new mapping tool to promote equitable investments for all types of rural communities.
CF Leads On Community Leadership
CF Leads
To guide community foundations interested in developing their community leadership skills, CF Leads uses the Framework for Community Leadership by a Community Foundation. The Framework was developed by the National Task Force on Community Leadership.
Transforming Persistent Poverty in America – How Community Development Financial Institutions Drive Economic Opportunity
Partners for Rural Transformation (PRT)
Eight out of 10 US counties in persistent poverty are nonmetro, and the majority of people living in persistent poverty counties are people of color. PRT examines structural exclusion that affects the nation’s most distressed communities and proposes recommendations to create conditions that advance social and economic opportunity.
Try This at Home: Create a Family Lifeline to Weather Financial Storms
Could we construct a way for an investor, a bank, and a philanthropy in our community to team up to make consumer loans to families in distress? In doing so, could we create a blueprint that communities could also use in the wake of a natural disaster or other community crisis?
Availability of Capital in Rural America
This report examines impact of changing financial markets on rural capital availability.
Strengthening the Link for Small Business Rural Banks
This research report focuses on issue of loaning credit to small enterprises.