Measurement
Vital Conditions for Health and Well-Being
Rippel
The vital conditions are an evolution, not a replacement, of the social determinants model that has been prevalent since its emergence in the early 2000s. A framework for community health and change.
WealthWorks: A Powerful Tool for Thriving Rural Places
WealthWorks is an approach to doing economic development differently that inspired and continues to inform the Thrive Rural Framework. Learn more about the WealthWorks approach.
UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
United Nations Development Programme
The Sustainable Development Goals were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity.
DESIGN THINKING FOR RURAL INNOVATION
SUNY Geneseo
Design thinking, or Human Centered Design, is a process for creative problem solving used by various sectors that puts people at the center of the design process.
Youth and Young Adult Wellbeing
Forum for Community Solutions
The Youth and Young Adult Wellbeing Measure Project Report provides insight and data from the youth and young adult researchers and displays each cultural design team’s research process to identify key areas of well-being within their culture and traditions. It also identifies common themes of well-being across the three cultural contexts. This report highlights the origin and milestones of the first stage of this project, and more importantly, it promotes and encourages the field of youth-centered programming to center young leaders as experts in their lived experience.
WEALTH: THE EIGHT CAPITALS
Wealthworks
To build a region’s wealth, WealthWorks considers not just financial assets, but includes the stock of all capitals in a region. The eight capitals: intellectual, financial, natural, cultural, built, political, individual and social. This approach takes into account all the features of a city, town, countryside or region that make it a good place to live, work and visit.
Crisis to Thriving Scale Worksheet
Garrett County Community Action
Based on the Garrett County Community Action Committee Whole Family Approach Life Scale, the evaluation framework offers a comprehensive tool to assess various aspects of individual and family well-being across different domains. The Life Scale categorizes these domains into five levels, ranging from critical needs to optimal stability.
SPIDER DIAGRAM: ASSESSING WEALTH IN A SECTOR
WealthWorks
Worksheet and small group discussion questions tool from WealthWorks.
REIMAGINING JOB QUALITY MEASUREMENT REPORT
The Families & Workers Fund
The Reimagining Job Quality Measurement report provides bold, actionable recommendations for government, philanthropy, business, and the nonprofit sector to strengthen how we collect, connect and use data to tell a fuller story about the economy and the experiences of the workers who power it.
Commentary: Challenging Everything We Know about Funding as a Path to Thriving Rural Communities
In an op-ed for Daily Yonder, Bonita Robertson-Hardy of the Community Strategies Group writes on how rural communities, funders, and other stakeholders’ approach to economic development can mean the difference between success and stagnation.
MEASURING RURAL WEALTH CREATION
NADO Research Foundation
This guide from NADO Research Foundation introduces concepts of measuring progress in rural wealth creation for RDOs that are involved in community and economic development within their regions.
Measure Up: A Call to Action
Today, we have a generational opportunity to strengthen prosperity and equity in communities and Native nations across the rural United...