Spring 2015

Community Counts: Activating All Families To Save for Higher Education

Amanda Jones-Layman

Promise Indiana has a mission to use community to move the needle on families saving and youth pursuing education beyond high school.

Preparing and Promoting Communities through Economic Analysis

Mark S. Goodman

Learn about some of the practical methods used to measure a community’s economic realities (e.g., retail analysis, economic impact analysis).

CDAC Spotlight
Designing Opportunity: Ending Generational Poverty and Re-establishing Economic Stability in Rural America

Terrance Clark

Terrance Clark discusses how he and his business partner are impacting impoverished regions of rural America—beginning in Helena, Ark.—with efforts to increase economic mobility and decrease brain drain.

Building Creative Communities

Kathy Moore Cowan

Colquitt, Ga., has used cultural tourism to bring itself and its autobiographical play, “Swamp Gravy,” to life, becoming a national and international model of rural and economic development.

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