Rural Endowment Building

The Learning Network's new survey of community foundations, focusing especially on geographic component funds.

Thinking and Action Frameworks

Building Engines for Rural Endowments is a framework for thinking and action that will help you build rural endowments. It is not an exact blueprint, nor is it a roadmap to, as an RDP consultant said recently, a “magic fundraising spigot.” Unfortunately, there are no magic spigots. Following the advice and tools offered by the framework, however, will offer what some of the most experienced thinkers in community philanthropy have learned about building engines for rural endowments.
Leading Tactics for Rural Fund Development. Raising endowed assets in a rural setting can be very different from asset development in urban or metropolitan areas. Leading Tactics for Rural Fund Development provides step-by-step guides to a variety of tactics—compiled from on-the-ground experience with rural endowment builders—that rural leaders can use to raise endowments in and for their community.