Building Regional Strength: Key Strategies
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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Blog
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.
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Advancing Regional Action Infrastructure
Jul. 18th, 2023, 1PM
Learn how rural practitioners are advancing regional action infrastructure and how your community can strengthen regional networks and work across communities.
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Growing Equitable Outdoor Recreation Economies
Discussion with rural leaders on the opportunity equitable outdoor recreation economies pose to rural areas.
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Sustaining Momentum in Rural Development
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Anita Brown-Graham describes the key components of lasting development in rural communities. She shared these insights in her keynote at the...
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Journey Toward Racial Equity Report
United Philanthropy Forum
In 2019, the Forum commissioned the design and implementation of a Racial Equity Organizational Self-Assessment for PSOs to support its members along their racial equity journeys by capturing a snapshot of their internal and external racial equity efforts. In 2022, the Forum launched a follow-up assessment to continue to benchmark the progress.
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Recompete Pilot Program Webinar
Jun. 29th, 2023, 3PM
Join our upcoming webinar on on the Recompete Pilot program, which aims to invest $200M in geographically diverse economically distressed communities.
Blog
Pathways to Rural Health Equity and Wellbeing
How the health equity and economic development fields intersect and can collaborate to bring prosperity to rural communities.
Research Brief
Maximizing New Federal Investments in Broadband for Rural America
Brookings Institution
Congress has appropriated billions of dollars to close the digital divide, but rural areas most likely to encounter challenges to access and adoption. How can smart policy help end the digital divide once and for all?
Research Brief
Building Trust in Community-Based Participatory Research
This research brief explores how rural MSIs and approaches to community-based participatory research can be used to better understand MSIs’ nature and practices.
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Growing Rural Equitable Outdoor Recreation Economies
Jun. 9th, 2023, 1PM
How is your community using outdoor recreation to grow sustainable, healthy livelihoods for families and new economic futures for your region?
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MAKING POLICY WORK FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES: THE VALUE OF COMMUNITY VOICE
Nonprofit Quarterly
Policy is about the allocation of resources. Far too often, policy decisions influencing the flow of resources fall short in meeting the needs of low-resource rural people and places.