Four Principles for Fostering Community Well-Being with Asset-Based Development
Insights and recommendations to foster rural & Indigenous well-being with asset based development.
Rural Knowledge Center
Rural Resources, Insights, and Collaborations by Aspen CSG and Partners
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WHAT IS COLLECTIVE IMPACT?
Collective Impact Forum
Collective impact is a network of community members, organizations, and institutions who advance equity by learning together, aligning, and integrating their actions to achieve population and systems level change.
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WORKING TOGETHER: A GUIDE TO COLLABORATION IN RURAL REVITALIZATION
N.C. Cooperative Extension
A handbook by NC State Extension explores coming together, staying together, and growing together as social mechanisms for successful rural revitalization collaborations and provide examples of their use in practice.
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FOOD SYSTEMS LEADERSHIP NETWORK
Wallace Center at Winrock International
The Food Systems Leadership Network is a national peer learning community that connects current and emerging leaders, strengthens individual and collective leadership capacity, and fosters collaboration across communities.
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REGIONAL FOOD HUB RESOURCE GUIDE
United States Department of Agriculture
This USDA resource guide is designed to give readers a greater understanding of what regional food hubs are, their impacts, strategies to assist their success and growth, and direction on where to find financial resources to support them.
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ONE APPALACHIA: CONNECTION AND COLLABORATION
Appalachian Regional Commission
YouTube recording of the The Appalachian Regional Commission event One Appalachia: Connection and Collaboration.
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RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
One-pager highlighting general policy approach of economic development and recent policy changes.
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WORKING TOGETHER: A GUIDE TO COLLABORATION IN RURAL REVITALIZATION
North Carolina State University
Leaders from six Southern cities reflect on and discuss their experiences and what they’ve learned about mobilizing communities to challenge racism and build more equitable systems.
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REGIONAL MULTISTATE COLLABORATION TOOLKIT
Appalachian Regional Initiative for Stronger Economics (ARISE)
The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) and American Institutes for Research (AIR) share case studies, insights and takeaways from practitioners and resources.
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DECREASING FLOOD RISK IN THE MIDWEST WITH REGIONAL COLLABORATIONS
Headwaters Economics
A regional approach to flood risk can help communities pool resources and implement effective solutions. Five case studies offer lessons.
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SIX WAYS TO INSPIRE MOMENTUM IN YOUR SMALL TOWN
Rural Revival
Rural Revival shares list of six things that will help you build momentum, cast vision, and get people excited.
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Moving Mindsets: How to Shape a Strategy
Frameworks
Want to change hearts and minds? Shift policy? Bring about structural change? It starts with knowing what mindsets are—and aren’t—and what it takes to shift them.
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THE “RIPPLE EFFECT” OF INVESTING IN RURAL AMERICA
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Projects may not touch the numbers of people or generate the returns of urban investments, but their effects are every bit as important, and ripple far and wide through the small, intricately connected networks of rural life.