Journal Articles

Papers and Presentations by Topic

Asset-based Community Development

• "Vitalizing Communities: Building on Assets and Mobilizing for Collective Action" was presented by Dr. John Allen, former Director of CARI, on March 29, 2004 during an online presentation with Dickenson State College of North Dakota. This PowerPoint presentation contains examples of completed asset inventory sheets from the Asset Based Community Development Guide for Communities.
• "Vitalizing Communities" Building on Assets and Mobilizing for Collective Action Facilitator Guide 2004
• "Vitalizing Communities: Building on Assets and Mobilizing for Collective Action" was presented by Dr. John C. Allen, former Director of CARI, on March 3 at the U.S.-Mexico Border Coalition of Resource Conservation and Development Councils Annual Conference 2003 in San Diego, California. "Vitalizing Communities" is a PowerPoint presentation.
• Building on Assets and Mobilzing for Collective Action: Community Guide 2002
• "Vitalizing Communities" Building on Assets and Mobilizing for Collective Action: Community Guide 1999

Business Transfer

• "Relationship Between Community Satisfaction and Migration Intentions of Rural Nebraskans," an article written by Rebecca Vogt, John C. Allen, and Sam Cordes, was published in the Spring 2003 Great Plains Research Journal.  Data analyzed for this article are from the 1998 Nebraska Rural Poll.
  
  

Health Care

• Minarick, Susan M, and Allen, John C. "Factors Influencing the Satisfaction and Retention of Nebraska's Rural Physicians." June 2003. Appendix: "Nebraska Rural Physician Satisfaction and Retention Survey." Conducted by the Center for Applied Rural Innovation (CARI), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, in cooperation with the Office of Rural Health, Nebraska Health and Human Services System and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Honors Program.

Marketing & Processing

• The Art of Creating a Goat Cheese Business - Raising goats and manufacturing goat cheese are viable ways to create a value-added product from farming. Profitability from the sale of farmstead goat cheese can be limited by how the operation is equipped and staffed, and what the current local or regional market will bear.

Technology

• "E-Commerce in Nebraska: A Survey of Business Technology Use." This 2004 report compiles the results of a survey completed by CARI in conjunction with the conNEcting Nebraska Technology Team. Funding was provided by the USDA National Pilot Rural Economic Development Initiative in partnership with the Southern Rural Development Center, University of Mississippi, New Mexico State University, and the University of Nebraska - Lincoln. This is a .pdf file.