Access to affordable capital and credit is an integral part of growing rural prosperity – what are some of the major capital and credit trends right now for rural practitioners? 

Global economic recovery with experts Zoë Baird, Penny Pritzker, Lawrence H. Summers and Robert Zoellick

In July 2021, President Biden formed the White House Competition Council, establishing a body to combat domestic corporate consolidation and coordinate antitrust enforcement actions. One year later, what progress has been made, and how will it move forward? Brian Deese, Director of the White House's National Economic Council, engages in conversation with Cecilia Kang of The New York Times.

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

When we write about supplier diversity models that should be scaled, adopted, and adapted, our first inclination is usually to focus on stat

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.

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.

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

The Thrive Rural Framework helps you take stock, target action, and gauge progress on rural prosperity. We invite everyone involved in rural development to use it to spark new ways of thinking and acting to move communities, regions, and systems toward equitable rural prosperity.