Thrive Rural Framework: Local-Level Building Blocks

The Thrive Rural Framework is a new tool to help you take stock, target action, and gauge progress on rural prosperity. We invite everyone involved in rural development — from local leaders to investors and philanthropists to state and national policymakers — to use this tool to spark new ways of thinking and acting to move communities, regions, and systems toward producing more widespread and equitable rural prosperity, health, and well-being.This piece of the framework, the Local-Level Building Blocks, includes conditions on the ground in rural places and regions that individual rural communities or regions can act on by themselves. Each Building Block (A-J) is necessary because it has an impact on being able to achieve more widespread and equitable rural prosperity.To better visualize and digest the different layers involved in the framework, we created a series of documents that together showcase the entire framework: 

• Start Here: Explore the Thrive Rural Framework Overview.
• Explore the Foundational Element: dismantling historical and ongoing discriminatory practices that disadvantage rural people and places.
• Explore Systems-Level Building Blocks to advance rural prosperity.