Innovators in Rural Community Economic Development
Shanna Ratner was a keynote speaker at the Canadian Centre for Rural Creativity 2018 Rural Talks to Rural Conference in Blyth, Ontario in October 2018. The title of her talk was "Investing for Rural…
Shanna Ratner was featured along with our colleague and friend Jack Salo and others in the September 2018 premiere of Chasing the Dream, a WSKG Public Media (PBS) production looking at issues…
Are you old enough to remember when it was not your job to pump your own gasoline? If not, let me share the world I grew up in. Gas stations were staffed with gas attendants. Those attendants were real…
Now that I am no longer working full-time, I have time to pursue some of my other interests including watercolor painting. I hope you enjoy these recent works, based on a technique I learned last summer…
Action Aid, an international NGO, has used the Handbook on Gender Sensitive Access to Markets written by Shanna Ratner and Barbara Wyckoff in trainings in Gambia, Rwanda, and Indiia. Stepdown trainings…
The Land Trust Alliance has just published A Flexible Framework for Evaluating Community Conservation that provides draft goals, indicators, and sample measures of impact for nine common community…
I just got back from two weeks in England and Scotland and the thing I will remember most is the kindness of strangers. Not one stranger and not one act of kindness, but many on an almost daily basis.…
Some of you may be interested in this 5 minute Ignite Talk on
Wealth and a Sustainable Economy that I gave at my 45th high
school reunion at Sandy Spring Friends School in Sandy Spring…
I have become a member of a local artists' cooperative called Artist in Residence.
We have a retail store on Main Street in St. Albans, Vermont. This photo is of the recent
installation…
