This report focuses on the role and aggregates the wisdom of a specific set of intermediaries that are doing development differently in rural America. We call them Rural Development Hubs — or Hubs for short.
Rural Development Hubs are the main players advancing an asset-based, wealth-building approach to rural community and economic development in this country.
They are the most visible actors in rural America, designing and implementing efforts that simultaneously:
- Increase and improve the assets that are fundamental to current and future prosperity: individual, intellectual, social, cultural, built, natural, political, and financial capital.
- Increase the local ownership and control of those assets.
- Always include low-income people, places, and firms in the design of their efforts — and in the benefits.
Hubs focus on all the critical ingredients in a region’s system that either advance or impede prosperity — the integrated range of social, economic, health, and environmental conditions needed for people and places to thrive.
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