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Thinking “Bigger” About Smaller Places: A Conversation about the Changing Landscape of Rural America
Presented to the Museum on Main Street 2019 National Planning Meeting Baltimore, MD May 29, 2019 Charles W. Fluharty Founder & President Emeritus Rural Policy Research Institute
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RUPRI’s Rural Arts and Cultural Policy Commitment
Why RUPRI engaged Where it led us Where we’re headed Charles W. Fluharty Founder & President Emeritus Rural Policy Research Institute
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RUPRI’s Focus on Comprehensive Rural Wealth
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• Regional Networks • Rural Creative Placemaking Summit • Digital Learning Commons
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RUPRI’s Rural Cultural Wealth Lab: A Wealth-based Conceptualization of Arts and Culture
What is comprehensive wealth? Financial capital Built capital Natural capital Human capital Intellectual capital Social capital Political capital Cultural capital
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RUPRI’s Rural Cultural Wealth Lab: A Wealth-based Conceptualization of Arts and Culture
The Rural Cultural Wealth Lab is focused on better understanding: The nexus of arts and culture, innovation, entrepreneurship, and rural sustainability and prosperity; and, how the unique assets of rural communities contribute to the wellbeing of rural people, and the sustainability of rural communities. How to measure wealth: Individual wellbeing is fundamentally a flow measure; GDP is our most common measure of economic flow, but wellbeing is dependent on our stock of assets (wealth); Our true wealth goes far beyond financial assets
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