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- What is the name your organization?
- SRDI
- What type of work does your organization do?
- SRDI works with rural communities of the South who are searching for better ways to take control of their future through policy, community philanthropy, and creative, effective economic development strategies that bring enduring, widely shared progress.
- What area of the country do you work in?
- SRDI works chiefly in the rural South - from central Appalachia, to the Delta
- Who do you work with?
- We work with a broad range of nonprofits and civic institutions, and with individual community leaders.
- What do you hope to gain from joining the Rural Innovation Network?
- All of the Above
Jason Gray's Blog
Water in the Fields, Frost on the Peach Blossom, Redbuds in Bloom
Recently, I made the umpteenth hundred trip from Cary to Wilmington this past year. Family illness, when you know there will be no cure, makes the miles crawl to a funeral march, but it gives you a chance to really pay attention to the landscape.
It is a corrective skill; given that America is now predominantly a suburban nation, we have largely lost our ability to see the subtle changes in the land, to understand the profound, and profoundly difficult, connections between nature, working lands… Continue
It is a corrective skill; given that America is now predominantly a suburban nation, we have largely lost our ability to see the subtle changes in the land, to understand the profound, and profoundly difficult, connections between nature, working lands… Continue
Posted on April 7, 2008 at 4:20pm —
Individual Assets/Community Assets
Over the past ten years there has been huge progress in understanding and advocating for policies that grow financial assets for low wealth workers and households - IDAs, earned income tax credits, to name just a few. CFED, in particular has done groundbreaking work on this (see in particular the fine report by former CFED staffers Beadsie Woo and David Bulcholz, "Return on Investment").
We have a pretty clear picture of what constitutes an individual asset program. Does the notion transfer to… Continue
We have a pretty clear picture of what constitutes an individual asset program. Does the notion transfer to… Continue
Posted on March 5, 2008 at 9:05am — 1 Comment
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