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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EQUITABLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The community development sector mobilizes and invests more than $200 billion in public and private resources to improve the quality of life in neighborhoods that historically have been excluded from opportunity.
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RWJF CULTURE OF HEALTH BLOG
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
It’s time to think differently about investing in rural America and the way we approach health and equity across its diverse communities. New research and resources show the critical connection between health, rural community and economic development.
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RURAL PLAYBOOK
Build Healthy Places
Playbook of rural hospitals pioneering creative partnerships with community development that pave the way for further investments in their communities.
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RURAL VOICES FOR CONSERVATION COALITION
Rural Voices Coalition
Our approach is to strengthen and empower the voices of rural leaders on issues such as collaborative all-lands stewardship, renewable energy, climate change, and local workforce development.
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THE YONDER REPORT
The Daily Yonder
The Yonder Report is a short, fast-paced roundup of rural news, featuring a wide variety of rural voices. Despite the news media’s consolidation into big cities, stories coming from thousands of small communities across the country are no less urgent and relevant to our national conversation.
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RURAL COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE PARTNERSHIP
Rural Community Assistance Partnership
RCAP elevates rural voices by sharing the latest news, stories, reports, and insights sourced from our work with rural and tribal communities across the country.
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THE RURAL POLICY ACTION REPORT
Rural Democracy Initiative
The Rural Democracy Initiative identified top rural policy priorities for the year for federal and state-based policymakers and advocates. Each issue area includes policy priorities, example legislation, and the context for how these issues impact people in rural communities.
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LEAD LOCAL
Lead Local
A collaborative that brought together well-respected local power-building leaders in the fields of community organizing, advocacy, and research to examine the relationship between community health and power building.
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ERADICATING RURAL POVERTY: THE POWER OF COOPERATION
Nonprofit Quarterly
Rural America is far more diverse than how it is portrayed in media and popular culture. This series from Partners for Rural Transformation and NPQ highlights that topic and efforts to address multi-generational poverty.
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KEEPING RURAL BUSINESSES OPEN ACROSS GENERATIONS
The Daily Yonder
Selling a company to its employees could be a way to preserve small town and rural businesses with generations of tradition behind them. Rob Brown from Business Ownership Solutions has some advice on how to do it.
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N.C.’S BORDER BELT INDEPENDENT PROVIDES A NEW APPROACH TO RURAL JOURNALISM
The Daily Yonder
Read this Daily Yonder article about a nonprofit newsroom in southeast North Carolina helping change the journalism landscape in four rural counties.
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Resources to Advance Rural Prosperity & Racial Equity
ChangeLab Solutions
Resilience and ingenuity are hallmarks of rural communities, stemming from their unique cultural and social histories. Given the diversity and varied strengths in rural places, policy solutions need to be tailored to the conditions and lived experiences of people in those communities.