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Community Wealth Creation

Community Wealth Creation

When you ask people to describe what makes their community a great place to live, play, and work, you begin…
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What is a Value Chain?

What is a Value Chain?

In rural areas across Appalachia, economic development has often led to profits for large, outside companies with little benefit to…
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Spiral Model of Popular Education

Spiral Model of Popular Education

The Spiral Model is a grounding concept RSP uses to facilitate collaborative group processes. Using the model, we draw out…
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What is a Social Enterprise?

What is a Social Enterprise?

Social enterprise is about solving old problems in new ways. In persistently distressed communities, social enterprises can explore and grow…
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Nonprofit Collaboration

Nonprofit Collaboration

Our most challenging social problems are too complex to change by the efforts of any single program, organization, or sector.…
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Core Elements of a Network

Core Elements of a Network

Rural Support Partners identified the building blocks of successful networks in rural-based organizations for wealth creation and how their experiences…
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Rural Networks for Wealth Creation

Rural Networks for Wealth Creation

Rural Support Partners conducted an in-depth study of collective impact networks working to create wealth that sticks in rural communities.…
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Creative Placemaking in Central Appalachia

Creative Placemaking in Central Appalachia

Central Appalachia has been employing creative placemaking for decades, if not centuries, just not necessarily by that name. We conducted…
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Systems-Based Organizing

Systems-Based Organizing

Systems-Based Organizing (SBO) is a participatory values-based approach to advancing large-scale systems and policy change by strengthening, connecting, and aligning…
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