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Principles & Players

Underlying Principles

Meet the Players

Readiness Factors

Fundamental Terms

Funders & Investors

The Community Investment Ecosystem

How Do You Know a Community Is Ready?

Guidelines for Investment

5 Stages of Investment & Pre-Work

Understand the Capital Stack & Spectrum of Financial Return

Types of Investments

Take the Readiness Assessment

Additional Information

About This Project

Download the PDF Playbook

Download the PDF Readiness Assessment

Readiness Assessment

Principles & Players

Underlying Principles

Meet the Players

Readiness Factors

Fundamental Terms

Funders & Investors

The Community Investment Ecosystem

How Do You Know a Community Is Ready?

Guidelines for Investment

5 Stages of Investment & Pre-Work

Understand the Capital Stack & Spectrum of Financial Return

Types of Investments

Take the Readiness Assessment

Additional Information

About This Project

Download the PDF Playbook

Download the PDF Readiness Assessment

Readiness Assessment

Folder: Principles & Players

Underlying Principles

Meet the Players

Readiness Factors

Fundamental Terms

Folder: Funders & Investors

The Community Investment Ecosystem

How Do You Know a Community Is Ready?

Folder: Practitioners

Guidelines for Investment

5 Stages of Investment & Pre-Work

Understand the Capital Stack & Spectrum of Financial Return

Types of Investments

Take the Readiness Assessment

Folder: Additional Information

About This Project

Download the PDF Playbook

Download the PDF Readiness Assessment

Readiness Assessment

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The Thriving Downtowns playbook is available for download if you want to share it with your community partners and networks.

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The readiness assessment can help your community identify which factors you have in place to leverage for downtown revitalization while also providing context for how the community can overcome any acknowledged challenges. At the end, you’ll get an overview assessment of community readiness.

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This Playbook was commissioned by the Appalachian Funders Network (AFN) and the Central Appalachia Network (CAN), and funded by grants from the Appalachian Investment Ecosystem Initiative (AIEI), Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky, and Community and Economic Development Initiative of Kentucky (CEDIK). Thank you to all the individuals that contributed to the development of this Playbook in the form of insight, case studies, photographs, and review.