Tag Archives: resilience
Revisiting Our Community Agility Ecosystem
What’s Community Agility? Two years ago – when we launched the Community Initiatives Team – agility was on ours minds. Pre-recession, we were hearing flat, but seeing spiky. Our team members live and work in regions as diverse as Portland (OR), Tucson (AZ), Charlotte (NC), and all over Michigan. So while the U.S. economy at [...]
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Tough Times in Regional Detroit
Unemployment in Macomb County I recently met with a Macomb county commissioner whose district is embedded in the metro Detroit region of roughly 5 million people. The commissioner was concerned because, despite state unemployment in excess of 15%, county unemployment exceeded 16%, and pockets in her district face rates as high as 25%. “We’re heading [...]
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Eleven Resilience Concepts for Rural (!?) Communities
Building Resilience in Rural Communities Toolkit: Eleven Resilience Concepts The result of a three-year project in the Community of Stanthorpe (Queensland), the Rural Resilience Toolkit identifies 11 concepts central to community resilience. They are: Social Networks and Support Positive Outlook Learning Early Experience Environment and Lifestyle Infrastructure and Support Services Sense of Purpose Diverse and [...]
Workers or Jobs: Which Comes First?