Infrastructure

Report
Pathways to digital skills development for Latino workers

Aspen Institute Latinos & Society and Upskill America

The report identifies promising business practices and ecosystem approaches to developing the digital skills of the Latino workforce.

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Natural disaster response workers moving sand bags
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...

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The Thrive Rural Framework
Thrive Rural Framework Overview

The Thrive Rural Framework is a new tool to help you take stock, target action, and gauge progress on rural prosperity. We...

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Foundational Elements graph and explanation
Thrive Rural Framework: Foundational Element

The Thrive Rural Framework is a new tool to help you take stock, target action, and gauge progress on rural prosperity. We...

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Local-Level Building Blocks explanation
Thrive Rural Framework: Local-Level Building Blocks

The Thrive Rural Framework is a new tool to help you take stock, target action, and gauge progress on rural prosperity. We...

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Systems-Level Building Blocks Explination
Thrive Rural Framework: Systems-Level Building Blocks

The Thrive Rural Framework is a new tool to help you take stock, target action, and gauge progress on rural prosperity. We...

Research Brief
Reimagining Rural policy: Organizing Federal Assistance to Maximize Rural Prosperity

Brookings Institution

The federal programs available today to promote rural economic and community development serve as a reminder of active federal involvement in the 20th century, but they are outdated, fragmented, and incoherent. How can federal policy more effectively support development in rural America?

Report
Building Assets: Strengthening Community in Low-Wealth Rural Areas

NeighborWorks America

Learning Communities offer a meaningful opportunity for practitioners to come together to better understand practices, contexts, and trends related to their work. This report details lessons and recommendations from a six-month Learning Community focused on strengthening community in low-wealth rural areas.

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Strengthening and Empowering the voices of Rural Leaders speaker panel
Land Stewardship & Development Alignment in Rural West

Jun. 10th, 2019, 10AM

This America’s Rural Opportunity conversation showcased five rural and tribal innovators who are leading this way forward. Learn about what they have done to forge new productive partnerships and about the difference it has made for the economy and environment, as well as rural communities and livelihoods.

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Reframing Natural Resource Economies

Apr. 20th, 2017, 11AM

This third America’s Rural Opportunity panel will focus on rural innovators who steward the nations’ natural resources and use those resources to create jobs and businesses. These innovators are rethinking and rebuilding rural economies around principles of sustainability.

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Local Innovation Strengthening Rural Economies panel speakers
Local Innovation Strengthening Rural Economies

Feb. 10th, 2017, 12PM

America’s Rural Opportunity is a six-part series of panel conversations that invites policymakers, economic and community development practitioners, and business and philanthropic leaders to engage in real dialogue around advancing a rural opportunity agenda.

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Manufacturing Assistance Program Needs Assessment Guide: Volume 1: Regional Needs Assessment Approaches

Part I of the Manufacturing Assistance Program Needs Assessment Guide.