Building Assets for the Rural Future

Building Assets for the Rural Futurewas completed in June 2010 with funding from the North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center. It features more than 80 promising approaches to asset-building in distressed rural communities. The approaches were identified through a “snow-balling” process that involved a literature review and over 120 interviews with practitioners, academics, policymakers, and foundation leaders. The programs highlighted in this guide were widely mentioned as promising examples of how communities are identifying, developing, protecting, and leveraging the assets within their communities.

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