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Community Development

Measure Up: A Call to Action — Executive Summary

This Executive Summary of Measure Up: A Call to Action highlights six principles for measuring rural development progress.

BY Community Strategies Group

Publication

06.22.2022
Community Development

Annotated List of Resources for Measuring Rural Development Progress

This Annotated List of Resources for Measuring Rural Development Progress is for rural practitioners to share resources and ideas to improve outcomes for rural families, communities, and regions.

BY Community Strategies Group

Publication

06.22.2022
Community Development

Measure Up: A Call to Action

This Call to Action highlights six principles for measuring rural development progress to encourage funders and investors to design programs that consider lower-capacity communities' realities, needs, and goals.

BY Community Strategies Group

Publication

06.22.2022
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The Environment

Environmental Justice Practices & Resources for Rural Communities

Rural community practitioners and allies gathered at an Open Field session to share how they think and act on rural environmental justice, including ideas on just and equitable energy transitions. This blog curates the themes, ideas, and resources shared by participants.

BY Clifford Devin Deaton

Blog Post

06.16.2022
Economic Development

Defining Rural Development Success

Four rural development practitioners share how we can better define rural development success.

BY Community Strategies Group

Publication

06.06.2022
US Government

Supporting EDA Reauthorization

CSG recently helped author and signed on to a letter with other RRAN members in support of EDA reauthorization.

BY Community Strategies Group

Blog Post

04.12.2022
Economic Development

Systems-Level Building Blocks

This piece of the Thrive Rural Framework, the Systems-Level Building Blocks, includes driving forces and conditions that are in larger systems outside the direct control of individual rural communities or regions.

BY Community Strategies Group

Publication

03.07.2022
Economic Development

Local-Level Building Blocks

This piece of the Thrive Rural Framework, the Local-Level Building Blocks, includes conditions on the ground in rural places and regions that individual rural communities or regions can act on by themselves.

BY Community Strategies Group

Publication

03.07.2022
Economic Development

The Foundational Element

The Foundational Element of the Thrive Rural Framework requires identifying and dismantling historical and ongoing discriminatory practices that disadvantage rural people and places.

BY Community Strategies Group

Publication

03.07.2022
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