Innovators in Rural Community Economic Development

New Mexico

Yellow Wood brings a special combination of content and process expertise to our work.

We invite you to explore our work.  Recent projects and presentations are listed below.  You can explore additional work using the various tags in the right hand column.

Fund for Rural America Forest Project Planning Grant

Yellow Wood Associates, Inc., in collaboration with the Forest Trust of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the National Network of Forest Practitioners, received a Planning Grant from the Fund for Rural America to develop a national center to create and support…

Keynote Speaker: New Mexico Rural Economic Development Forum

Ms. Ratner, Principal of Yellow Wood Associates, Inc., spoke on the topic of "Creating Learning Communities" to an audience of economic development practitioners and elected officials. The focus of the forum was "Build Community Capacity: Tools for…

New Mexico Rural Economic Development Forum - Build Community Capacity: Tools for Vitalizing Our Rural Economies

Yellow Wood Associates, Inc. presented a workshop on measuring progress toward community goals for economic development practitioners.

"The lecture was informative; but the real action began when we went through…

US Forest Service Rural Community Assistance Regional Trainings - Southwestern Region

One of a series of Rural Community Assistance regional trainings that Yellow Wood co-faciliated with staff of the Heartland Center for Leadership Development, as part of their work with the North Central Regional Center for Rural Development, for the…

New Mexico Community Foundation Training

Yellow Wood Associates, Inc. provided training to staff and grant recipients of the New Mexico Community Foundation to assist in integrating community capacity building into the foundation, rural livelihood, and strengthening family grantee initiatives.…