Final Report: Formulating a Sustainable Economic Development Process for Rural America

Tags: Community Economic Development, Program Management, Wealth Creation

Client Name: Ford Foundation

Location: United States

Resource Type: Report

Author Org: Yellow Wood Associates

Author: Shanna Ratner

Year: 2015

This report documents outcomes by sector of WealthWorks implementation on the ground in Central Appalachia, the South, and the Lower Rio Grande Valley.  It also includes lessons learned over the last year and a half of the eight year Wealth Creation in Rural Communities initiative funded by the Ford Foundation and now known as WealthWorks.  Lessons learned in earlier years are documented in a series of four interim reports.

Related Projects

• Wealth Creation in Rural Communities, Phases 1 and 2: Triple Bottom Line Framework for Rural America
• Achieving Sustainable Communities and Social Equity Conference
• National Rural Electric Cooperative 2013 CEO Close-Up Conference
• National Cooperative Business Association Wealth Creation Pilot Project
• Blood, Muscle, Bone: A Story of Wealth and Poverty
• NADO Economic Development Finance Service Peer Networking Conference
• Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition 10th Annual Policy Meeting
• Wealth Creation in Rural Communities - Building Sustainable Livelihoods (WealthWorks)
• Cooperatives and the Wealth Creation Approach
• Minnesota Campus Compact Webinar: Supporting Rural Economic Vitality through Campus-Community Partnerships
• ActionAid, The Wealth Creation Framework & International Values Chains Work: An International Workshop
• NADO Rural Sustainable Development Workshop, April 26-27, 2012, Burlington VT
• NADO Sustainable Communities Omaha, Creating and Retaining Wealth: New Ways of Approaching Economic Development in Rural and Small Metro Communities
• Wealth Creation in Rural Communities: 2011 NCBA Annual Meeting and Cooperative Conference