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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Growing Language Skills with Immigrant Families
What can be done to help immigrant families with the language barrier as they work on improving their language skills?...
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Building Trust with Immigrant and Refugee Families
Trust between social service organizations and their clients is crucial to effectively provide services to immigrant and refugee families. Our...
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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).