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About CSD |
Asset Building | State Assets Policy
| Civic Service |GAP
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SEED
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Publications |
Search |
Contact
Welcome
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State Assets Policy Projects With funding support from the Ford Foundation and technical assistance provided by the Center for Social Development at The Brown School of Social Work, faculty and staff at the G. W. Carver Agricultural Experiment Station at Tuskegee University are currently working to mobilize key stakeholders in the Black Belt Region to come together and participate in the development of a multi-state asset building coalition. Wealth Building in Rural America Project The Wealth Building in Rural America project was informed by a vision of wealth building as a bedrock theme in the history and development of the United States. Although ownership of property was a vision upon which the nation was founded, rural America has experienced a "hollowing out" of assets since the country changed from predominantly agricultural production to industrialization. Moreover, major declines in population in rural America have led to struggles in rural communities for economic, social, and civic stability and growth. The Wealth Building in Rural America project seeks to advance the state of knowledge, policy, practice, and research, while attending to the particular concerns of people of color and diverse populations who live in rural areas.
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