After a decade of exponential growth in Minnesota’s craft breweries, COVID-19 led to an 18 percent drop in economic activity during 2020 — a tough hit for an industry that generated more than $1 billion in economic activity only a year earlier. University of Minnesota Extension researchers documented the toll…

Community development is an essential component of county Extension education. To successfully incorporate community development into their programs, county agents and their supervisors need to recognize and define what is— and what is not—encompassed in community and economic development. This document provides a brief review.

This guide is written to help produce sustainable behavioral changes within communities.

This fact sheet describes what a sustainable business is and will help businesses develop a sustainability goal, understand the behavior changes necessary to meet that goal, provide techniques to achieve those behavior changes, and outline the implementation of a successful plan.

This factsheet provides a succinct introduction to the Community Capitals Framework.