Rural communities face unique development challenges related to density, access, and available resources. HRS understands the importance of rural communities to our national economy and related issues critical to rural growth and sustainability such as education, healthcare, infrastructure, business and entrepreneurship, transportation, broadband and Internet access, workforce and leadership capacity building. HRS understands the dynamics involved with grant making, leveraging financial resources, project management, and the importance of the concepts of Wealth Creation – The Wealth Creation Model helps insure that more wealth created by local people and extracted from local resources remains in the community to build local prosperity.
The firm’s expertise encompasses organizations such as Commissions, Public-Private Partnerships, Local Development Districts (LDD), Professional Associations, and Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI).
Appalachian Partnership
Appalachian Regional Commission
Keystone Initiative for Network Based Education & Research
Penn-Northwest
Roanoke Regional Chamber
Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission
