economic development

Executive Summary document for Mapping a New Terrain: A Call to Action. Get quick takeaways and recommendations for action on equitable outdoor recreation development.

This short case study has insights and tips on how rural communities with limited staffing and resources can understand, prepare for, and compete for finite federal funds.

Many resources center asset-framing as primarily a household-level and local issue. But what is the systems-level responsibility for acting on assets?

This Executive Summary of Measure Up: A Call to Action highlights six principles 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.

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. 

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.

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

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