Publications Rural Development News Vol. The book explores the challenges and opportunities facing micro-entrepreneurs who enter these sectors and examines the strategies used and lessons learned from the Appalachian Center for Economic Networks experiences. This publication is the first in a series of case studies featuring innovative marketing approaches emerging from a national demonstration, known as the Access to Markets project.
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The National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership recently added a new document to its website. Indispensable Information describes resources and methods available for implementing an outcomes-based approach to developing healthier communities. It outlines the ways to use data effectively to bring about community change, provide secondary data source references, illustrate quantitative and qualitative data collection methodologies, and describe elements of a research and data collection plan. NNIP is a collaborative effort by the Urban Institute and local partners to further the development and use of neighborhood-level information systems in local policymaking and community building. When City and Country Clash Understanding and solving the problems associated with urban sprawl is the topic of a publication developed as a task force project of the National Public Policy Education Committee in cooperation with the Farm Foundation.