Rural Resources, Insights, and Collaborations by Aspen CSG and Partners
Insights and recommendations to do rural development and rural health differently—moving collectively toward equitable rural development with projects grounded in place and a people-centered vision of community impact.
Indiana Business Research Center
This article reviews the TBL concept, explains how it can be useful for businesses, policy-makers and economic development practitioners and highlights some current examples of putting the TBL into practice.
Appalachian Voices
The Reclaiming Appalachia Coalition shares Just Transition case studies shedding light on Appalachia’s ongoing economic transition.
Office of Elementary & Secondary Education
A blog to help ensure their stakeholder engagement approaches are effective in rural districts.
ReImagine Appalachia
ReImagine Appalachia has gathered tools and resources on community benefit agreements that are useful for all rural communities.
Rural SE Hub
A resource on rural stakeholder engagement from Scotland.
United States Environmental Protection Agency
The EPA Smart Growth Self-Assessment for Rural Communities (2015) is a compilation of strategies, organized by 11 common “goal areas,” that villages, towns, and small cities can use to evaluate their existing policies to create healthy, environmentally resilient, and economically robust places.
ChangeLab Solutions
The unique diversity and strengths of each rural community means that policy solutions need to be tailored to the lived experiences of people in those diverse communities. Explore ChangeLab Solutions work on rural policy and health equity.
Rural Health Information Hub
Tools and resources on rural health policy from the Rural Health Information Hub.
Brookings Institution
Federal assistance for rural development is outdated, fragmented, and confusing. Brookings researchers provide recommendations to maximize the return on federal investment.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
This Policy Brief looks at the experience and insights coming from numerous initiatives that are being implemented across OECD countries and offer possible solutions to these policy challenges.
Regional, rural and urban development
This Policy Brief looks at the experience and insights coming from numerous initiatives that are being implemented across OECD countries and offer possible solutions to these policy challenges.
Rural Matters
In the first of a three-part series, Michelle talks with Tony Pipa of the Brookings Institution and Janet Topolsky of Aspen CSG about the opportunity to modernize and improve US policy to support equitable rural development.
