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Triple Bottom Line
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Triple Bottom Line
Resourceful Communities’ “triple bottom line” is a unique approach to community development that integrates environmental stewardship, sustainable economic development and social justice. When issues are viewed as separate unrelated parts, solutions tend to be piecemeal or short term. Resourceful Communities recognizes that these issues are related; their solutions must be integrated for sustainable change. In focusing on assets, rather than deficiencies, communities, their economies and environment are strengthened for the long term.

Triple bottom line efforts are as varied as the organizations and communities in our statewide network. This approach is flexible and innovative, creating new economies that protect, enhance and restore natural, cultural, historic and community resources.
Partner Spotlight
Jackson County Green Energy ParkJackson County Green Energy Park
CNEF grantee and peer educator, Jackson County Green Energy Park captures methane gas from the old Dillsboro, NC, landfill for use as a fuel, transforming an environmental liability into economic opportunity.

 

This county-sponsored landfill recovery program provides environmental protection, business opportunities and educational programs about renewable energy. Read more »

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Kids in Tyrrell County, NC Your generous contribution will directly support ongoing efforts to integrate environmental stewardship, sustainable community development and social justice throughout North Carolina's economically distressed communities and with new partners in Georgia and South Carolina.

Latest News
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Thanks to our incredible partners for a year of growth and accomplishment! We applaud our partners’ creative solutions to critical challenges.


More than 220 organizations across North Carolina are cultivating, practicing and enriching the “triple bottom line.” Resourceful Communities looks forward to another year of nurturing change through training, funding, technical assistance and other programs.


Our work is inspired by our partners, and we feel rewarded by comments like this one from Lexie Danner of Elkland Art Center: “You do for us what we all dream of being able to do for each other.” Thank you!

Regional Leadership WorkshopRegional Leadership Workshops
Training for Community Leaders


Resourceful Communities continued its Regional Leadership Workshops series this fall. More than 100 community leaders engaged in the two-day, intensive training and direct technical assistance on grant writing. Effective training ripples through each community. As one partner put it, “the connecting, relationship building, hands-on how to – we’ll use this every day!”



These trainings, offered free-of-charge to partners twice a year, provide much-needed training and opportunities to connect with experts and peer educators. The topics are determined by partner input and have included sessions on fundraising, leadership development and youth engagement. See "Movement Building" to learn more about the Regional Leadership Workshops.