rural development

This Thrive Rural Field Perspective offers a call to action to restructure and reorient public, private and philanthropic capital in ways that increase their impact across rural America.

This first in the Thrive Rural Field Perspective Series highlights how accelerating connections between health and development can propel rural prosperity.  

Tailoring economic and community development efforts to the assets, actors and goals of specific communities and regions is critically important.

This book chapter highlights six action principles “do economic development differently”—that shifts from the risky “winner takes all” approach that is heavily reliant on a business-recruitment strategy to a “let’s all win” approach of building on a region’s existing, underutilized assets.

What must happen for economic development to foster a more prosperous, healthier, equitable and environmentally sustainable rural America? This scan of field practices and trends advances our answer to this question.

We need to reconsider dated stereotypes regarding which communities are leading the environmental movement.