Connecting community assets to market demand to build lasting livelihoods.
Across the country, community leaders are implementing new approaches to economic development that connect local assets to market demand and build lasting livelihoods. In Appalachia, a region in need of new economic engines, there is hope in clean energy market opportunities that emphasize energy efficiency and renewable sources.
WealthWorks offers a systematic approach that identifies enterprising opportunities in a region and engages a wide range of partners in turning those opportunities into results that both build and capture wealth. It can complement or incorporate traditional economic development methods, but intentionally focuses on creating more value that becomes rooted in local people, places and firms.
Build a more self-reliant and robust area economy.
Bring underutilized community assets — people, place, property and know-how — into fuller participation and production.
Create wealth that sticks — because it is locally owned, controlled and reinvested.
Increase upward mobility overall and advance the livelihoods of lower-income people, firms and places.
Strengthen industry sectors that fuel the economy.
Forge valued partnerships that can ably and flexibly connect again and again to power increasingly resilient regions.
