Building Regional Strength: A Call to Action
Insights and recommendations to build healthy, thriving rural & Indigenous regions.
Rural Knowledge Center
Rural Resources, Insights, and Collaborations by Aspen CSG and Partners
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Research Brief
Regional Clusters and Rural Development
Brookings Institution
Implementation of the Build Back Better Regional Challenge offers an enormous opportunity to advance how regional approaches can benefit — or disadvantage — rural places.
Research Brief
Connecting Minority-Serving Institutions and Rural Research
Exploring the potential for MSIs to produce more rural research and integrate rural perspectives into established and developing rural-focused research systems.
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2-GEN TOOLBOX
Ascend (Aspen Institute)
The updated 2Gen Toolbox includes more than 300 resources from key 2Gen leaders and consultants, gathered by Karen Murrell (Higher Heights Consulting), Aspen CSG and Ascend.
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FAMILY-CENTERED COACHING
Family-Centered Coaching
Family-Centered Coaching Toolkits are strategies, tools, and resources to work holistically with families as they strive to reach their goals.
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ENSURING AN EQUITABLE JUST TRANSITION
RMI
RMI presents a comprehensive review of state legislation that supports coal communities and workers facing economic transition mapped onto our policy framework.
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SMART GROWTH IN SMALL TOWNS AND RURAL COMMUNITIES
United States Environmental Protection Agency
Resources from the EPA. Smart growth strategies can help rural communities achieve their goals for growth and development while maintaining their distinctive rural character.
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ASSET-BASED COMMUNITY APPROACHES FROM THE RURAL HEALTH INFORMATION HUB
Rural Health Information Hub
Toolkit explores how asset-based approaches for rural communities working to build community capacity to address different social determinants of health.
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ASSET-BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND BUILDING SUSTAINABLE RURAL COMMUNITIES
ICMA Center for Sustainable Communities
A briefing paper from the ICMA Center for Sustainable Communities.
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RURAL AMERICA PLACEMAKING TOOLKIT
USDA Rural Development
The Rural America Placemaking Toolkit is a resource guide to showcase a variety of placemaking activities, projects, and success stories across rural America.
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UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
United Nations Development Programme
The Sustainable Development Goals were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity.
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RURAL AMERICA PLACEMAKING TOOLKIT
USDA Rural Development
The Rural America Placemaking Toolkit is a resource guide to showcase a variety of placemaking activities, projects, and success stories across rural America.
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DESIGN THINKING FOR RURAL INNOVATION
SUNY Geneseo
Design thinking, or Human Centered Design, is a process for creative problem solving used by various sectors that puts people at the center of the design process.