Wealth Creation: A New Framework for Rural Economic and Community Development

ISBN-13: 9780367257422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 162 str.

Shanna Ratner

Opis

Wealth Creation provides a conceptual guide with practical examples for policymakers, practitioners of economic and community development, community organizers, environmentalists, funders, investors, and corporations seeking a values-based framework for identifying self-interests across sectors.

Spis treści

Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction 2. What is Wealth? 3. What is a Wealth Creation Value Chain? 4. How Do Ownership and Control Change The Game? 5. What Does It Mean to Be Demand-Driven? 6. How Do We Connect with Investors? 7. Where Does Technology Fit Into Wealth Creation Value Chains? 8. Rethinking Measures of Economic Impact 9. The Roles of Wealth Creation Value Chain Coordinators and Coaches 10. Taking a Wealth Creation Approach to Scale Index.

O autorze

Shanna E. Ratner is the founder and principal of Yellow Wood Associates, a firm specializing in rural economic and community development since 1985. She was selected by the Ford Foundation to conceptualize and support implementation of a new approach to rural economic development that became WealthWorks. Ms. Ratner was trained in systems thinking as a member of the first class of Donella Meadows Fellows and has been a Mel King Fellow at MIT, and a member of the Aspen Institute’s Learning Cluster on Rural Community Capacity Building. She holds a MS degree in Agricultural Economics from Cornell University and a BA in Value Systems from New College in Sarasota, Florida, and lives in rural Vermont.