Innovators in Rural Community Economic Development

Wealth Creation

Final Report: Formulating a Sustainable Economic Development Process for Rural America

This report documents outcomes by sector of WealthWorks implementation on the ground in Central Appalachia, the South, and the Lower Rio Grande Valley.  It also includes lessons learned over the last year and a half of the eight year Wealth Creation…


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Yellow Wood Notes, Summer 2015

Yellow Wood in Transition; Update on Our Work; WealthWorks; Presentations; Measurement; Staffing News; Reading & Watching


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Black Belt Treasures Cultural Arts Center Learning Journey Details

Through the support of the Center for Rural Entrepreneurship, the Black Belt Treasures Cultural Arts Center facilitated a trip to Western North Carolina to study the arts economy and creative placemaking in the region. This report provides a summary…


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Community Based Tourism (CBT) Wealth Creation Project: Sustainable Rural Regenerative Enterprises for Families (SURREF) visits Country Style Community Tourism Network (CCTN)

This report is a summary of a learning journey by Sustainable Rural Regenerative Enterprises for Families (SURREF) and six individuals representing stakeholders and partners who traveled to Jamaica from December 11 to December 16, 2011. These stakeholders…


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Potential Impacts of a Renewable and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard in Kentucky

The study estimates the impacts of a Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard on Kentucky’s portfolio of electricity resources, on average electric bills, and on the state’s economy. The report was produced by Synapse Energy Economics, Inc. for the Mountain…


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Wealth Creation Through Sustainable Forestry: Generating Wealth Creation Models in the Appalachian Wood-products Industry

This report examines and presents wealth creation models adapted to the needs and context of sustainable forestry in Appalachia.


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Fossil-Free Investment for a Just Appalachian Transition: Obstacles and Opportunities

This paper by the Croatan Institute was commissioned by the Mountain Association for Community Economic Development (MACED). The paper addresses the effect that the growing movement for divestment from fossil fuels and investment in more sustainable…


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Formalizing Your Business: A WealthWorks Guide for Coordinators and Coaches

This guide is one of two pieces written to assist WealthWorks value chain coordinators or coaches in working with businesses and demand partners that are part of WealthWorks value chains. This guide is designed to walk readers through one of the most…


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WealthWorks Value Chain Business Law Guide: A WealthWorks Guide for Coordinators and Coaches

This guide is one of two pieces written to assist WealthWorks value chain coordinators or coaches in working with businesses and demand partners that are part of WealthWorks value chains. This guide is written to assist WealthWorks coordinators, coaches,…


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WealthWorks for Building Rural Economies

WealthWorks is an approach bridging community and economic development to build multiple forms of community wealth, resilience, and local ownership. This webinar provides a short overview for newcomers to the approach, followed by a focus on issues…


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WealthWorks for Your Region: An Introduction. Module 3: Construct a WealthWorks Value Chain

This module profiles the elements and design objectives of a WealthWorks value chain—and how to use them to build wealth that lasts.


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WealthWorks for Your Region: An Introduction. Module 2: Identify a Market Opportunity

This module offers a series of useful screens for spotting a market opportunity that has good potential to generate wealth-building results for a region.


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WealthWorks for Your Region: An Introduction. Module 1: Explore Regional Wealth Building

This module defines wealth building as a goal that reaches beyond standard community and economic development objectives, and why that difference is critical to advancing and sustaining regional economies.


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Community Development v.45, i.5, Special Issue: Rural Wealth Creation as a Sustainable Economic Development Strategy

Many rural areas in the United States find themselves struggling to build local assets and create wealth. They often struggle to hold on to the wealth that is created within their boundaries. Conventional approaches to community and economic development…


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Community Development v.44, i.5, “Shared measures to achieve shared outcomes: lessons from Central Appalachia”

This paper introduces a wealth creation approach to development, and describes how the Central Appalachian Network has used an outcome-based measurement process to define and measure progress toward shared goals for seven forms of community wealth.…


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Rural Wealth Creation

This textbook investigates the role of wealth in achieving sustainable rural economic development. Published by Routledge and edited by John L. Pender, Bruce A. Weber, Thomas G. Johnson, and J. Matthew Fannin.


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Local Economy Journal v.29, n.4-5, “Linking rural assets to market demand: Wealth creation value chains in rural America”

Rural regions across the United States have struggled to implement economic development strategies that build local assets and create wealth that contributes to sustained prosperity. This article describes a systems framework that enables rural areas…


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Citizen-Led Sustainable Change - Case Study: Rural Action, Ohio

In connection with the 2013 forum on Citizen-Led Sustainable Change held on the St. Francis Xavier University campus, Alison Mathie produced a case study on Rural Action, titled “From the fringe to the mainstream: Rural Action’s pursuit of a sustainable…


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Citizen-Led Sustainable Change - Case Study: The Deep South Wealth Creation Network, Mississippi and Alabama

In connection with the 2013 forum on Citizen-Led Sustainable Change held on the St. Francis Xavier University campus, Phil Davison produced a case study on the Deep South Wealth Creation Network, titled “The Deep South Wealth Creation Network,Mississippi…


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Want to Know How Wealth Works? A Training for Coaches and Coordinators

This webinar offered participants a preview of the WealthWorks Training for Coaches and Coordinators.  Training facilitators shared the approach to the training and the expected outcomes. Participants were able to ask questions and explore how this…


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Private Sector Engagement Toolkit

The Private Sector Engagement Toolkit helps users think about how they will connect with the demand side of the markets they are in. The Toolkit is designed to help WealthWorks value chain coordinators as well as individual businesses within a value…


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Building Rural Wealth Through Inclusive Business: a Primer on Private Sector Engagement for Community Impact

The final report from the Red Mantra Group on Building Wealth Through Inclusive Business is now available. Inclusive Business is an approach to economic development in which one or more large corporations are the primary demand partners. For corporations…


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Enterprise Financing for WealthWorks Value Chains: Overview and Guide

As part of WealthWorks, the Accelerating Impact project is aimed at articulating the role of finance in supporting WealthWorks value chains in rural areas.Over two years, this project of the Tellus Institute has worked with ten projects on the ground…


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Innovative Strategies that Support Rural Communities

This presentation on WealthWorks and WealthWorks value chains was made as part of a panel at the National Reinvestment Coalition 2014 Annual Conference.


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Rural Research Report v.24 i.1: Connecting Community Assets with Market Demand for Lasting Livelihoods

This paper, featured in the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs’ Rural Research Report (Spring 2014, Volume 24, Issue 1), provides an overview of the WealthWorks approach and its tools, including the WealthWorks value chain construct and the wealth…


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Enhancing the Local Impact of Community Banks

The Wealth Creation Clinic partnered with Presidio Bank, a progressive regional bank in San Francisco, to examine a key question for community banking: In a competitive environment, how can small banks be a more positive force for local community development,…


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Branding Study for Appalachian Local Food Economies

This report, produced for the Central Appalachian Network (CAN) in partnership with the MIT “Keeping Wealth Local” Clinic, explores examples of place-based food brands and offers recommendations for CAN and other Central Appalachian organizations interested…


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Assessing Impacts of Value Chain Development on Poverty: A Case-Study Companion to the 5Capitals Tool

These case studies supplement the 5Capitals tool developed by CATIE.  Five case studies were selected, with a geographical spread and a focus on different, crops, target markets and beneficiaries: Nicaragua - certified coffee; Colombia - fresh fruits…


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5Capitals: A Tool for Assessing the Poverty Impacts of Value Chain Development

5Capitals is tool for understanding critical development issues, designed for users including funding agencies, NGOs, consultants, government agencies, businesses, and certification bodies.  The tool is built on the belief that greater access to livelihood…


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Financing the Evolving Role of the Value Chain Coordinator: Guiding Questions, Participant Insights

This report explores what we have learned about the roles value chain coordinators play in WealthWorks, how those roles may evolve, and various options for financing the coordinator role which is so essential to exploring and constructing WealthWorks…


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Guide to Crowdfunding for WealthWorks Value Chains: Understanding Options, Getting Started

This report was produced as part of a project to explore financing options for WealthWorks value chains. It describes crowdfunding and how it works, gives examples of different platforms and successful campaigns, and provides a step by step guide to…


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WealthWorks Training for Coaches and Coordinators: Application

WealthWorks is a 21st-century approach that belongs in every community and economic development toolkit. WealthWorks is inclusive, bringing together and connecting community assets to meet market demand in ways that build lasting livelihoods and upward…


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WealthWorks Training for Coaches and Coordinators: Brochure

This brochure provides an overview of the WealthWorks Training for Coaches and Coordinators. WealthWorks is a 21st-century approach that belongs in every community and economic development toolkit. WealthWorks is inclusive, bringing together and connecting…


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Wealth Creation in Rural Communities – Building Sustainable Livelihoods: Cross Regional Convening

Place-based grantees from three regions (Central Appalachia, the Alabama Black Belt and Mid-South Delta, and the Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas), resource team members, researchers, and Ford Foundation staff met at the Ford Foundation office in New…


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Your Role in Healthy Food Systems

Shanna Ratner's plenary presentation at the Growing Health 2012 conference in New York addressed the benefits of a fully-realized food system, discussed food systems in context of a wealth creation approach, and engaged participants in exercises around…


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Wealth Creation in Rural Communities - Verde Valley, May 1, 2012

This introductory webinar introduced wealth creation concepts and vocabulary, including wealth creation value chains and multiple forms of wealth, to Walton Family Foundation grantees in the Verde Valley area of Arizona.


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A New Way Forward for Rural America

In a changing global environment, the potential contributions of rural America are significant. Rural leaders need new ways of thinking about economic development. This brief introductory paper outlines seven guiding principles for a wealth creation…


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Assessment of Triple Bottom Line Financing Interventions

Ten financing interventions are profiled in this paper, which looks at how capital investment in combination with other strategies is used to achieve triple-bottom-line outcomes.


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2010 Rural Lisc Seminar: Asset Building and Economic Development Strategies: A Workshop for Community Development Practitioners

This file contains presentations by participants in a session highlighting three emerging practices in community development: financial education and coaching, developing entrepreneurial ecosystems, and a wealth creation approach to development in…


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Local and Regional Wealth-Building Strategies.

Wealth Creation in Rural Communities presentation made to the 8th Annual BALLE Business Conference and Member Meeting in Charleston, South Carolina. May 21-23, 2010.


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Building a Regional Food System: A Case Study of Market Umbrella in the New Orleans Region

This case study looks at the role of Market Umbrella in helping to develop a regional food system around New Orleans. Interviews throughout the case study highlight the importance of building multiple forms of wealth to create community resilience…


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Building a Sustainable Network: A Toolkit

This toolkit is a set of worksheets designed to help groups build strong, effective, sustainable networks. It includes worksheets for organizations that are considering forming or joining a network, emerging networks that have already organized and…


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Case Studies of Wealth Creation and Rural-Urban Linkages

This report contains four case studies about rural-urban linkages in Oregon, the New Orleans region, Texas, and Nebraska, as well as introductory material and a concluding commentary that looks at each case study in context of the core principles of…


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Case Study: Cooperatives and Wealth Creation - a Pilot Study

This case study profiles Yellow Wood's work, in collaboration with the National Cooperative Business Association, to document the impacts cooperatives have on multiple forms of wealth in their communities. This work was undertaken as part of Yellow…


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Case Study: Leadership in Community Wealth Creation

This case study profiles Yellow Wood's project management work with the Wealth Creation in Rural Communities - Building Sustainable Livelihoods (WealthWorks) initiative.


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A Compendium of Clusters in Less Populated Places: Circumstances, Interventions and Outcomes

Why and to what extent do companies clustering in rural areas pursue – intentionally or unintentionally – triple-bottom-line outcomes? This document discusses the kinds of interventions, cluster strategies, and local policies that can most effectively…


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Distributing Electric Energy in Rural America Efficiently and Economically: The Micro-grid Option

This paper describes opportunities for and barriers to managing electricity production and consumption at the community level via micro-grid systems.


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Wealth Creation Webinar Presentation

Project Summary and Application Guidelines for the Wealth Creation in Rural Communities work as of 2009.
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The Forests and the Wood Products Sector in Appalachian Kentucky: What We Heard and What We Learned

What are the opportunities and challenges for sustainable rural development in the forests and wood products sector of Appalachian Kentucky? The participants in the Ford Foundation Regional Learning Project Team engaged in a discovery project, interviewing…


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Third Interim Report: Formulating a Sustainable Economic Development Process for Rural America

A balanced approach to development takes account of the triple bottom line, benefiting the economy, the environment, and social inclusion simultaneously, while considering the impacts on seven forms of wealth (individual, social, intellectual, natural,…


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Second Interim Report: Formulating a Sustainable Economic Development Process for Rural America

A balanced approach to development takes account of the triple bottom line, benefiting the economy, the environment, and social inclusion simultaneously, while considering the impacts on seven forms of wealth (individual, social, intellectual, natural,…


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Fourth Interim Report: Formulating a Sustainable Economic Development Process for Rural America

A balanced approach to development takes account of the triple bottom line, benefiting the economy, the environment, and social inclusion simultaneously, while considering the impacts on seven forms of wealth (individual, social, intellectual, natural,…


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Interim Report: Formulating a Sustainable Economic Development Process for Rural America

A balanced approach to development takes account of the triple bottom line, benefiting the economy, the environment, and social inclusion simultaneously. This Interim Report on the progress of the project assesses lessons learned so far.


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Generating Local Wealth, Opportunity, and Sustainability Through Rural Clusters

As a companion paper to the more theoretical paper (A Compendium of Clusters in Less Populated Places: Circumstances, Interventions and Outcomes), this second clusters report – over 100 pages in length – offers a series of 50 case studies of rural…


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Growing and Retaining Wealth in Rural America

Interviews with community leaders at high-performing organizations in Central Appalachia, the Lower Rio Grande Valley, and the Delta Region provide insight into connections between organizations engaged primarily in individual asset building, entrepreneur-focused…


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How Rural is Central Appalachia?

Before we can measure rural economic activity in an area, we need a clear picture and understanding of how geographic areas are defined as rural. This paper explores several methods for measuring the rural character of a region and uses each method…


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A Different Kind of Ownership Society

This article by Marjorie Kelly and Shanna Ratner was posted to the Yes! Magazine website on August 3, 2010.


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Connecting Community Assets with Market Demand for Lasting Livelihoods

This webinar for the National Alliance for Rural Policy shared the WealthWorks approach and its main concepts, as well as how it has been used on the ground.
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Wealth Creation in Rural Communities: A Framework for Deep Collaborations and the Arkansas Biofuels Story

This webinar shares the principles and key tools of the Wealth Creation in Rural Communities – Building Sustainable Livelihoods framework, while also telling a story of this work on the ground. It uses the example of a biofuels value chain being constructed…


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Impact Investing for Rural Wealth Creation: Investing for financial returns and community impact

How do we connect impact investors and rural enterprise, encouraging investment that develops multiple forms of wealth? This paper outlines key features of impact investment and shares examples of successful investment models that provide both financial…


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Keeping Wealth Local: Shared Ownership and Wealth Control for Rural Communities

Resources do not represent community wealth unless communities own and control them. This report introduces the concept of shared ownership, then describes and explores various models, looking at strengths, weaknesses, the range of applications, expertise…


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Learning Journey Debriefing: Emerging ChangeMakers Network visits Coastal Enterprises Inc.

This learning journey report shares the reflections of members of Emerging ChangeMakers - a Ford grantee in the Black Belt that is exploring the creation of an investment value chain - on their visit with an experienced triple bottom line lender and investor.…
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Harnessing the Sun as an Alternative Energy Resource: Economic and Social Impacts of PV Use in Electricity Production

This paper examines economic impacts, policy frameworks, and socially inclusive training programs related to photovoltaic energy.
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Measuring Community Wealth

What do we mean by "community wealth" and how would we know it if we saw it? In "Measuring Community Wealth," real world data from Appalachian Kentucky is used to illustrate how examples of six forms of wealth (individual, intellectual, natural, built,…
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Measuring Community Wealth: Appendices

This paper provides detailed analysis of the data from Appalachian Kentucky used in "Measuring Community Wealth." This information includes county-by-county rates of healthy weight people and the financial costs of obesity; broadband access and computer…
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The Significant Potential of Wind Energy in America: A Transformative Force in Struggling U.S. Rural Economies?

This paper examines opportunities and issues related to wind energy development in rural America, with case studies illustrating a range of wind energy projects.


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Plastics from Plants: A Case Study of NatureWorks LLC, Blair, Nebraska

This is a case study of NatureWorks, a bio-based products company in Nebraska that transforms a renewable crop into a value-added plastic resin that can be used to make low carbon footprint and/or biodegradable products.
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Case Studies: Prosperous Counties in Appalachia

This paper identifies rural counties in Appalachia which have sustained or attained relatively strong levels of prosperity over the course of the decades from 1980-2000. Statistical analysis of these counties lays the groundwork for future detailed…


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Rural Entrepreneurship Development I: Examples of Effective Practices

Entrepreneurship development is a key part of a sustainable economic development process for rural America that benefits the economy, the environment, and social inclusion. This paper begins an exploration of what makes this approach particularly effective…
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Rural Entrepreneurship Development II: Measuring Impact on the Triple Bottom Line

To gain greater insight into how entrepreneurship development practitioners are measuring the impacts of their work, this analysis began by looking closely at six interventions, ranging from a youth entrepreneurship program to a multi-county entrepreneur…
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Rural Entrepreneurship Development III: Insights for Moving Forward

Based on a year-long exploration of many effective interventions in rural entrepreneurship development, this report shares insights on what is needed to move forward in working for greater triple-bottom-line impacts.


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Rural-Urban Interdependence in Central Appalachia Discussion Paper

To better understand the potential for wealth development in the Central Appalachia region, this paper reviews regional approaches to assessing and developing wealth; examines the ways and extents to which rural and urban economies are interconnected;…
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Rural Networks for Wealth Creation: Impacts and Lessons Learned from US Communities

This research report presents qualitative data from interviews with 24 practitioners at six networks that are working to create wealth in rural areas across the United States. The report presents findings related to network results, network management,…


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Formulating a Sustainable Economic Development Process for Rural America.

This Wealth Creation in Rural Commuities presentation was made at Exploring Innovation: A Conference on Community Development, Sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. April 23, 2009
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The Role of Equity Capital in Rural Communities

This research focuses on the impact that venture or patient capital has on rural economies, how patient capital funds can promote a triple bottom line (TBL) in their rural investments, and how practices with positive impact can be scaled and or replicated…


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Transitioning to a Restoration Economy: A Case Study of Oregon's Forestry Sector

This case study explores a developing restoration forest economy and its positive impacts along the forest products value chain; these impacts can be seen both in terms of wealth retention and creation and of forging linkages between rural and urban…


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Value Chain Best Practices: Building Knowledge for Value Chains that Contribute to the Health of Source Communities

This paper aims to contribute to a tool box of best practices for using value chain strategies, which represent an emerging field in rural development. The objectives of healthy value chains are to better balance risk, responsibilities, and benefits along…
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Expanding Livelihood Opportunities for Low-income and Poor Households.

This Wealth Creation in Rural Communities presentation, "Expanding Livelihoods Opportunities for Low-Income and Poor Households," was presented by Wayne Fawbush to the 2010 Northeast Rural Summit in Burlington, Vermont


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Financing Renewable Energy Projects: An Overview

This paper reviews methods for financing residential and large-scale renewable energy projects. Examples highlight how communities use these methods to develop cost-effective, energy-efficient, and stable energy sources.
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Creating Rural Wealth: An Overview

This brochure provides an overview of the Wealth Creation in Rural Communities initiative, including the principles of wealth creation, examples of the Wealth Creation approach in action, brief definitions of the seven forms of community wealth, and the…
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Wealth Creation in Rural Communities – Building Sustainable Livelihoods: Cross Regional Convening

Place-based grantees from three regions (Central Appalachia, the Alabama Black Belt and Mid-South Delta, and the Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas), resource team members, researchers, and Ford Foundation staff met at the Ford Foundation office in New…


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Wealth Creation in Rural Communities: A New Approach

Start with this paper for a description of the Wealth Creation in Rural Communities initiative.
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Social Innovation and the Power of Markets: Cross Regional Convening, March 20, 2012

Jason Saul is the CEO of Mission Measurement, a strategy consulting firm that helps nonprofits, companies and government agencies to create value through social change. Jason’s approaches–using the power of markets and the engine of business to solve…


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Gaining Wealth Creation Traction in the Wider World: Building Tools for More Places to Build Rural Livelihoods

Even as the Wealth Creation in Rural Communities work is going on in the pioneering regions, the Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group has been tasked with creating a framework of materials and approaches that can interest and activate community…
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Making Measurement Work: Assessing Value Chains, Engaging Partners, and Informing Interventions - Handouts

This session explores how measurement can be a useful process for helping groups to work more effectively toward their goals.
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Making Measurement Work: Assessing Value Chains, Engaging Partners, and Informing Interventions - Presentation

This session explores how measurement can be a useful process for helping groups to work more effectively toward their goals.
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Cross Regional Convening March 20-21, 2012: Participant Photos and Bios

Photos and biographies of participants in the 2012 Cross Regional Convening of the Wealth Creation in Rural Communities initiative, supported by the Ford Foundation.
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A Brighter Path Forward: The Intersection of Green Construction and Affordability

This report presents FAHE's research into green, energy efficient building techniques that balance concern for affordability and conservation. The goal of this research is to support environmentally and economically sustainable construction of homes…
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Global Lessons from Inclusive Business: Accelerating Local Value Creation through the Private Sector

An introduction to the theory and practice of inclusive business and how it might be relevant to accelerating the impact of value chains in rural communities.
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Federation of Appalachian Housing Enterprises: A Case Study

FAHE is, arguably, the strongest example of network approaches to increasing impact and strengthening financial performance in the domestic community development field. The purpose of this case study is to extract the lessons from the FAHE experience…


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2012 Cross Regional Convening Presentation: Expanding Livelihood Opportunities for Poor Households.

This presentation set the context for the 2012 Cross Regional Convening.
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Working Hard and Smart: How Technology is Integral for Value Chain Progress

Using technology in value chain construction and operations.
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Wealth and Prosperity in Central Appalachia

This paper assesses the prosperity of Central Appalachian counties. The assessment compares the prosperity levels of Central Appalachian counties to each other, to themselves over time, and to the region and the country as a whole, using measures that…


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Wealth Creation and Regional Innovation

This paper identifies the place- and history-based context for a regional approach to wealth creation; assesses varying prosperity rates across the counties of Central Appalachia; analyzes the trade flows between Economic Areas in Central Appalachia;…


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Wealth Creation and Rural-Urban Linkages in Central Appalachia Briefing Paper

This briefing paper summarizes the research work conducted by RUPRI in analyzing areas of the Central Appalachia region, assessing the prosperity levels of the Central Appalachia region, analyzing trade flows between rural and urban parts of Central Appalachia,…
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Wealth Creation and Rural-Urban Linkages Final Composite Report

This process report summarizes the wealth development research work undertaken by RUPRI on behalf of the Ford Foundation during the 2009-2010 year.
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Wealth Creation and Rural-Urban Linkages An Exploratory Study of Economic Flows in Two Natural Resource-Rich Regions

How does the flow of money from trade, dividends and interest, rent, and taxes affect the potential for wealth creation? By examining the economic activity of areas in two resource rich regions, one in Oregon and one in Appalachia, this paper paints a…
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Wealth Creation, Capture and Retention for Low-Wealth People and Places in Regional Systems

Much of the wealth created in low-wealth and rural communities slips away. This paper examines how more of the wealth generated can remain in these communities and accrue to the benefit of low-wealth families and individuals. Building on research by the…
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Wind Energy and Rural Development: A Case Study of West Texas

This case study looks at the extent to which wealth generated by wind energy development in West Texas has remained in and benefited rural communities.
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Wealth Creation in Rural Communities: July 26, 2012 Presentation for the National Cooperative Business Association

This webinar presentation was made as part of Yellow Wood's work with the National Cooperative Business Association and individual cooperatives on measuring the impacts cooperatives have on multiple forms of wealth.


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