This resource provides an in-depth discussion of each of the eight capitals.
These include an asset inventory tool, to inventory regional or community assets by form of capital, and a spider diagram tool, to rate how the region or community is doing across different forms of capital.
This template provides guidance in undertaking a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis using the eight capitals.
This matrix uses the eight capitals to consider new partnerships, new CEDS committee members and/or new audiences to target in your work.
This matrix allows you to one or more market opportunities using a variety of criteria.
This handout shares the criteria that can help you choose among different options for value chain development.
This handout defines the types of partners critical to developing a successful value chain.
Click here for a graphic of ‘How to Map a Value Chain.’
This simple graphic further explains how to map a value chain.
This worksheet provides questions to think about and a structure for thinking about the key partners in a value chain.
This resource helps you to organize your thinking and plans around how to measure impacts on the eight capitals.
How can you use ideas from the Wealth Creation Framework to strengthen your organization’s work? Wealth Creation uses three major principles that are aligned with work that regional and rural economic development organizations and their partners are often doing, including building multiple forms of community wealth, growing ownership and control of regional assets, and building lasting livelihoods for people across the income spectrum. Use this tool to reflect on how your organization’s work could meaningfully advance these objectives in an ideal world without resource constraints.
The following resources are provided outside of the EDD CoP grant, but may still be helpful with wealth creation work.