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Community Strategies Group Assessment Worksheet. What are top issues you are working with in your community? Which building blocks are connected to your issue at the local and systems level?
Thrive Rural Framework Assessment Worksheet

We have the opportunity to build thriving, prosperous, healthy rural communities and Native nations where each and every person belongs...

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Bree Watzak

Director of Technical Assistance, Center for Optimizing Rural Health

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The Political Economy of U.S. Rural Policy: An Exploration of the Past with Strategies for the Future

Researchers argue that there exists a need for a national rural policy of some sort after years of solely agricultural-focused policy.

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Our Approach

Aspen CSG advances an asset-based, wealth-building approach to rural community and economic development.

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Shelter in Rural Places: Facing Rural Housing Challenges in the Unfolding Pandemic

May. 26th, 2021, 2PM

Resources from the event: Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the crucial role of childcare within...

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The Slowdown in Nonmetropolitan Development: The Impact of Economic Forces and the Affect on the Distribution of Wages

Paper explores the divergence in nonmetropolitan and metropolitan development over the past decade by addressing three questions.

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Rural Development Hubs and Federal Resource Opportunities

Apr. 12th, 2023, 1PM

Learn how to use federal funding opportunities to build bridges and develop new capacities and the importance of working regionally to maximize community assets.

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Erin Cahill

Director of Communications

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Margins to Mainstream: Community Foundations Advancing Family Economic Success

Report serves as a framework for community foundation leaders and partners attending the Margins to Mainstream: Community Foundations Advancing Economic Success Peer-Exchange Workshop.

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Valued Rural Stewardship

Public and private purchasers, users, and beneficiaries fairly compensate rural actors for the natural resource and ecosystem value that rural people, businesses, and organizations produce to sustain natural resources and, thus, America’s future prosperity.

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2Gen Practices: Growing Language Skills with Immigrant Families

Oct. 14th, 2021, 2PM

Whether it is written or spoken, language and dialect differences are a potential barrier to providing quality 2Gen programs to immigrant families, as well as successfully connecting them to employment, housing, education and other opportunities.

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Rural Telecommunications Initiative Agenda

Initiative entails computer and information technology training to many rural community-based organizations that do not have access.