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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Recent Learnings from (and for) the Rural Field
New opportunities with value to rural and Native nation communities are being generated across fields, from public health to environmental justice and beyond. Check out a few ideas and opportunities to help spur equitable rural prosperity in your community.
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Rural Community College Excellence: A Guide to Delivering Strong Opportunity for Students and Communities
Rural community colleges serve over 1.5 million students, yet often receive less attention compared to their urban and suburban counterparts. To address this gap, the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program shares examples of high-achieving rural colleges.
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2023 COUNTY HEALTH RANKINGS
The University Of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (CHR&R) brings actionable data, evidence, guidance and stories to support community-led efforts to grow community power and improve health equity. The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute (UWPHI) created CHR&R for communities across the nation, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Communicating to Connect: Moving Beyond Neutrality
This short case study has insights and tips to move beyond neutrality and still communicate effectively across the political spectrum.
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Advancing NextGen Rural & Indigenous Leaders
Insights and tips to identify, establish, and sustain youth leadership in rural and Indigenous communities.
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Challenging Current Rural Funding Strategies
In an op-ed for Daily Yonder, Bonita Robertson-Hardy of the Community Strategies Group writes on how rural communities, funders, and other stakeholders’ approach to economic development can mean the difference between success and stagnation.
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Using Relational Leadership to Build Power Together
This short case study has insights and tips on how communities that have been historically and systematically excluded can develop authentic and effective leadership that builds power to challenge the status quo.
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Advancing the Next Generation of Rural and Indigenous Leaders
Feb. 10th, 2023, 1PM
How is your community thinking and acting on the issue of next generation leadership?
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Translating Federal Opportunities into Local Resources
This short case study has insights and tips on how rural communities with limited staffing and resources can understand, prepare for, and compete for finite federal funds.
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After a Brief Pandemic Reprieve, Rural Workers Return to Life Without Paid Leave
The Daily Yonder
Rural workers are less likely to receive paid time off than their urban counterparts, making it harder to care for themselves or loved ones.
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Housing Justice Narrative Toolkit
At Aspen CSG, we recognize that how we tell stories about housing matters as much as the facts we share....
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HOUSING JUSTICE NARRATIVE TOOLKIT
PolicyLink
The PolicyLink Housing Justice Narrative Initiative’s toolkit offers a scaffolding for us to stay centered in the future we are reimagining. It supports our ability to speak to a base of individuals most aligned with housing justice—the anti-racist and persuadable base—in ways which are authentic and that they can hear.