This issue of Community Investments focuses on rural community and economic development issues, highlighting ways that practitioners and policymakers are shifting their efforts toward the development ...

The Community Development Innovation Review (formerly known as the Community Development Investment Review) was in production from 2005-2021 and focused on bridging the gap between theory and practice ...

Maria Sykes, Epicenter Executive Director, in front of the neon welcome sign by artist Lisa Ward. (Photo by Danny Baxter) Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email ...

The ongoing economic fallout from COVID-19 — and its disproportional impact on people of color — is being felt not just in big cities but also in rural areas of persistent poverty across the United ...

In a small, rural village in Zambia, Ruth earns an income by collecting fresh vegetables from local community gardens and bringing them to market. Tending and collecting the vegetables by foot is time ...

Proposed Rural Community Health Improvement Systems would provide a broad, cross-sectoral framework to address the health needs of underserved rural Americans. Accountable care organizations (ACOs) ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS)— Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity’s (LEO) Office of Rural Prosperity have announced the recipients of $1.3M in Rural Readiness ...

Malaysia will celebrate the World Rural Development Day (WRDD) for the first time at Tun Abdul Razak Stadium, Jengka near ...

Korea Rural Community Corp. (KRC) is pursuing and supporting more rural development projects in Indonesia and African nations as the developing countries seek to build new infrastructure and improve ...

Rural community development encompasses a broad spectrum of policies, practices and research devoted to improving the quality of life and resilience of populations living outside major urban centres.