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1 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

2 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

3 RUPRI’s Focus on Comprehensive Rural Wealth

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5 • Regional Networks • Rural Creative Placemaking Summit • Digital Learning Commons

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9 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

10 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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