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Delta Sun Biodiesel Business Plan

Business plan developed by alt.consulting for Delta Sun Biodiesel Company
Delta Sun Biodiesel Business Plan
Business plan developed by alt.consulting for Delta Sun Biodiesel Company
Farm to Fuel

A video by Arkansas State University MidSouth on the DeWitt County biodiesel micro-refinery
Farm to Fuel
A video by Arkansas State University MidSouth on the DeWitt County biodiesel micro-refinery
A Wealth Building Framework to Do Economic Development Differently

A brief overview of the WealthWorks wealth building framework components.
A Wealth Building Framework to Do Economic Development Differently
A brief overview of the WealthWorks wealth building framework components.
Sample Prosperity Summit Facilitator's Agenda

A sample facilitator's agenda to help as you plan your own Prosperity Summit
Sample Prosperity Summit Facilitator's Agenda
A sample facilitator's agenda to help as you plan your own Prosperity Summit
Place-Based Investing for Resilient Rural Development

This study is the fourth in a series of WealthWorks papers focused on financing rural value chains. It helps value chain practitioners understand emerging opportunities to tap into new place-based forms of finance, across a wide spectrum ranging from crowdfunding to Slow Money, to community...
Place-Based Investing for Resilient Rural Development
This study is the fourth in a series of WealthWorks papers focused on financing rural value chains. It helps value chain practitioners understand emerging opportunities to tap into new place-based forms of finance, across a wide spectrum ranging from crowdfunding to Slow Money, to community...
Measuring Rural Wealth Creation: A Guide for Regional Development Organizations

The Measuring Wealth Creation guide introduces concepts of measuring progress in rural wealth creation for regional development organizations that are involved in a range of community and economic development within their regions. Although this guide is intended to help measure the work of a...
Measuring Rural Wealth Creation: A Guide for Regional Development Organizations
The Measuring Wealth Creation guide introduces concepts of measuring progress in rural wealth creation for regional development organizations that are involved in a range of community and economic development within their regions. Although this guide is intended to help measure the work of a...
The eight capitals

A simple one-pager that lists the eight capitals.
The eight capitals
A simple one-pager that lists the eight capitals.
Strategies for lasting livelihoods: An example

A simple one-pager for addressing low-income livelihoods in a development project.
Strategies for lasting livelihoods: An example
A simple one-pager for addressing low-income livelihoods in a development project.
Telling Your WealthWorks Story: Guide for Storytellers

A guide to help practitioners tell their wealthbuilding story using the WealthWorks framework
Telling Your WealthWorks Story: Guide for Storytellers
A guide to help practitioners tell their wealthbuilding story using the WealthWorks framework
Thinking ownership and control: Types and examples

A simple one-pager listing the different types of ownership and control strategies.
Thinking ownership and control: Types and examples
A simple one-pager listing the different types of ownership and control strategies.
Building Your Stock of Wealth

A description of stocks and flows of capital
Building Your Stock of Wealth
A description of stocks and flows of capital
Evaluation Framework

Rural wealth creation is an approach to community and economic development that is demand-driven, focusing on market opportunities that capitalize on a community’s existing assets or underutilized resources. Wealth creation is intentionally inclusive, building lasting livelihoods for those who...
Evaluation Framework
Rural wealth creation is an approach to community and economic development that is demand-driven, focusing on market opportunities that capitalize on a community’s existing assets or underutilized resources. Wealth creation is intentionally inclusive, building lasting livelihoods for those who...
Harnessing local energy: An energy retrofits example

A simple one-page example showing how a development professional may assess the interests of diverse players in a regional development project.
Harnessing local energy: An energy retrofits example
A simple one-page example showing how a development professional may assess the interests of diverse players in a regional development project.
Spider Diagram: Assessing Wealth in a Sector

A tool for conducting a preliminary assessment of capitals in a sector
Spider Diagram: Assessing Wealth in a Sector
A tool for conducting a preliminary assessment of capitals in a sector
Potential partners in an organic tomato soup value chain: An example

A simple one-pager giving an example of the partners in an organic tomato soup value chain.
Potential partners in an organic tomato soup value chain: An example
A simple one-pager giving an example of the partners in an organic tomato soup value chain.
Value Chain Mapping and Identifying Opportunities

A tool for generating a preliminary map of a value chain
Value Chain Mapping and Identifying Opportunities
A tool for generating a preliminary map of a value chain
Wealth-building investment: An example

A simple one-pager showing how a development professional might gather investment in a value chain and build wealth in the process.
Wealth-building investment: An example
A simple one-pager showing how a development professional might gather investment in a value chain and build wealth in the process.
Engaging Low-Income Partners in a Value Chain

A presentation that covers ways low-income partners can be engaged in a value chain
Engaging Low-Income Partners in a Value Chain
A presentation that covers ways low-income partners can be engaged in a value chain
Formalizing Your Business: A WealthWorks Guide for Coordinators and Coaches

This guide is one of two pieces written to assist WealthWorks value chain coordinators or coaches in working with businesses and demand partners that are part of WealthWorks value chains. This guide is designed to walk readers through one of the most important legal issues that affect small...
Formalizing Your Business: A WealthWorks Guide for Coordinators and Coaches
This guide is one of two pieces written to assist WealthWorks value chain coordinators or coaches in working with businesses and demand partners that are part of WealthWorks value chains. This guide is designed to walk readers through one of the most important legal issues that affect small...
Hints for Productive Conversations with Demand

A guide for conversations with potential demand partners in your value chain
Hints for Productive Conversations with Demand
A guide for conversations with potential demand partners in your value chain
WealthWorks Value Chain Business Law Guide: A WealthWorks Guide for Coordinators and Coaches

This guide is one of two pieces written to assist WealthWorks value chain coordinators or coaches in working with businesses and demand partners that are part of WealthWorks value chains. This guide is written to assist WealthWorks coordinators, coaches, and participants in anticipating common...
WealthWorks Value Chain Business Law Guide: A WealthWorks Guide for Coordinators and Coaches
This guide is one of two pieces written to assist WealthWorks value chain coordinators or coaches in working with businesses and demand partners that are part of WealthWorks value chains. This guide is written to assist WealthWorks coordinators, coaches, and participants in anticipating common...
Roles of the Coordinator Team

The Coordinator Roles Handout describes some of the roles that these coordinating entities can and do play
Roles of the Coordinator Team
The Coordinator Roles Handout describes some of the roles that these coordinating entities can and do play
Building Rural Wealth Through Inclusive Business: a Primer on Private Sector Engagement for Community Impact

The final report from the Red Mantra Group on Building Wealth Through Inclusive Business is now available. Inclusive Business is an approach to economic development in which one or more large corporations are the primary demand partners. For corporations that see it in their self-interest to...
Building Rural Wealth Through Inclusive Business: a Primer on Private Sector Engagement for Community Impact
The final report from the Red Mantra Group on Building Wealth Through Inclusive Business is now available. Inclusive Business is an approach to economic development in which one or more large corporations are the primary demand partners. For corporations that see it in their self-interest to...
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats Tool

The SWOT Handout offers useful instructions for completing a SWOT analysis with a twist—organizing your analysis by multiple forms of capital
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats Tool
The SWOT Handout offers useful instructions for completing a SWOT analysis with a twist—organizing your analysis by multiple forms of capital
Private Sector Engagement Toolkit

The Private Sector Engagement Toolkit helps users think about how they will connect with the demand side of the markets they are in. The Toolkit is designed to help WealthWorks value chain coordinators as well as individual businesses within a value chain. The Toolkit focuses on why and how to...
Private Sector Engagement Toolkit
The Private Sector Engagement Toolkit helps users think about how they will connect with the demand side of the markets they are in. The Toolkit is designed to help WealthWorks value chain coordinators as well as individual businesses within a value chain. The Toolkit focuses on why and how to...
Guide for Organizing a Prosperity Summit

These guidelines will help you create a leadership team, identify an economic sector to focus on during the Summit, and get the right people to the Summit. We also share some logistical information to help with your planning.
Guide for Organizing a Prosperity Summit
These guidelines will help you create a leadership team, identify an economic sector to focus on during the Summit, and get the right people to the Summit. We also share some logistical information to help with your planning.
Keeping Wealth Local: Shared Ownership and Wealth Control for Rural Communities

Resources do not represent community wealth unless communities own and control them. This report introduces the concept of shared ownership, then describes and explores various models, looking at strengths, weaknesses, the range of applications, expertise required, and sources of assistance.
Keeping Wealth Local: Shared Ownership and Wealth Control for Rural Communities
Resources do not represent community wealth unless communities own and control them. This report introduces the concept of shared ownership, then describes and explores various models, looking at strengths, weaknesses, the range of applications, expertise required, and sources of assistance.
Sample Prosperity Summit Agenda

A sample agenda to help as you plan your own Prosperity Summit
Sample Prosperity Summit Agenda
A sample agenda to help as you plan your own Prosperity Summit
Videos introducing WealthWorks
Videos profiling individual value chains
Introduction to WealthWorks

An introduction to the three guiding goals and major components of implementing a rural wealth creation approach to local economic development known as WealthWorks. If you are already familiar with WealthWorks we hope this is a useful refresher. If you are discovering the approach for the first...
Introduction to WealthWorks
An introduction to the three guiding goals and major components of implementing a rural wealth creation approach to local economic development known as WealthWorks. If you are already familiar with WealthWorks we hope this is a useful refresher. If you are discovering the approach for the first...
Selecting a Sector & Defining a Market Opportunity

In the WealthWorks approach to economic development, communities select sectors and identify specific market opportunities within those sectors that can build wealth in their regions. This video provides guidance on selecting a sector in your region and narrowing your focus to a specific market...
Selecting a Sector & Defining a Market Opportunity
In the WealthWorks approach to economic development, communities select sectors and identify specific market opportunities within those sectors that can build wealth in their regions. This video provides guidance on selecting a sector in your region and narrowing your focus to a specific market...
Mapping & Analyzing a Value Chain

Once you have narrowed your focus to a specific market opportunity, the next step is to map and analyze the value chain of that market opportunity. We define a value chain, how to map it, and then how to use that map to find opportunities that can generate long-lasting benefits for your...
Mapping & Analyzing a Value Chain
Once you have narrowed your focus to a specific market opportunity, the next step is to map and analyze the value chain of that market opportunity. We define a value chain, how to map it, and then how to use that map to find opportunities that can generate long-lasting benefits for your...
Analyzing Market Demand

This video walks you through a set of principles to better understand the central role of market demand in the WealthWorks approach and how to start analyzing market demand for a value chain in your region to identify opportunities to generate long-lasting benefits for your community.
Analyzing Market Demand
This video walks you through a set of principles to better understand the central role of market demand in the WealthWorks approach and how to start analyzing market demand for a value chain in your region to identify opportunities to generate long-lasting benefits for your community.