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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Disaster Planning and Rural Resilience
Flooding, tornadoes, drought, wildfire, and other extreme weather events cause major disruption and damage wherever they occur and have potential...
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Supporting EDA Reauthorization
For over a year, Aspen CSG has been leading work with Reimagining Rural Assistance Network (RRAN). RRAN is a focused,...
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Arts Midwest Podcast
Arts Midwest
What does it mean to be a truly welcoming organization and how can arts leaders be more inclusive hosts who foster belonging? Dig into a discussion with two artists who regularly tackle these questions, Ananya Chatterjea and Marcus Young.
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HOW CONSISTENT CAPITAL FLOW CAN SAVE RURAL AMERICA
Partners for Rural Transformation
With current and anticipated funding already accounted for, take a look at how the Partners maximize capital flow to improve the livelihood of their service areas.
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Thrive Rural Framework Overview
The Thrive Rural Framework is a tool to help you take stock, target action, and gauge progress on rural prosperity.
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Thrive Rural Framework: Foundational Element
The Foundational Element of the Thrive Rural Framework requires identifying and dismantling historical and ongoing discriminatory practices that disadvantage rural people and places.
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Thrive Rural Framework: Local-Level Building Blocks
Local-Level Building Blocks highlight conditions in rural places and regions that individual can act on by themselves.
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Thrive Rural Framework: Systems-Level Building Blocks
The Thrive Rural Framework is a new tool to help you take stock, target action, and gauge progress on rural prosperity. We...
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BUILDING MOMENTUM FOR YOUR LONG-TERM VISION
Citizens' Institute on Rural Design
Webinar recording from Citizens Institute on Rural Design. Lessons help your team build momentum for your long-term vision.
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HEALING-CENTERED LEADERSHIP: A PATH TO TRANSFORMATION
Nonprofit Quarterly
This article is from the Winter 2021 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly, “We Thrive: Health for Justice, Justice for Health,” and was adapted from The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves by Shawn A. Ginwright (North Atlantic Books, 2022).
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PATHWAYS TO SECURING RURAL FEDERAL FUNDING
The Ford Family Foundation
The Ford Family Foundation and Sequoia Consulting’s research analyzes the causes of inequitable access to public funds and develops recommendations to access public funding streams from federal and state governments.
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COMMUNITY RESILIENCE ESTIMATES TOOL
United States Census Bureau
The US Census Bureau’s Community Resilience Estimates (CRE) program tool includes a new dashboard and data that helps users understand their communities’ social vulnerability and equity.