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
Report
Blog
THREE WAYS TO PROMOTE EQUITABLE RURAL INVESTMENTS
Urban Institute
Urban Institute highlights three ways practitioners, policymakers, and investors can use their new mapping tool to promote equitable investments for all types of rural communities.
Research Brief
Rural Public Health and Health Care Trends
This field scan is a contribution to Thrive Rural, specifically intended to provide an understanding of the state of relevant...
Report
Rural Development: Field Practice and Trends
What must happen for economic development to foster a more prosperous, healthier, equitable and environmentally sustainable rural America? This scan...
Blog
Building an Infrastructure of Care
This week, the White House announced its support for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework, hailing it as, “the largest long-term investment...
Blog
Climate Solutions for Rural Regions
A recent New York Times article detailed the climate-related pros and cons of using wood pellets for heating in the Southeast United...
Event
Rebuilding with Care: Advancing Quality Childcare in Rural Places
May. 26th, 2021, 12PM
Resources from the event: Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the crucial role of childcare within...
Event
Shelter in Rural Places: Facing Rural Housing Challenges in the Unfolding Pandemic
May. 26th, 2021, 2PM
Resources from the event: Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the crucial role of childcare within...
Tool
WHICH THINK TANKS THINK ABOUT RURAL AMERICA?
The Daily Yonder
Economic Innovation Group think tank offers tools that introduce “geographic inequality” into the national conversation and bring rural America’s economic distress to the forefront.
Blog
Tapping Rural Innovation for a Clean Energy Economy
Rural communities are integral to our nation’s economy, culture, history, and the environmental services that we all depend on. Yet...
Tool
CF Leads On Community Leadership
CF Leads
To guide community foundations interested in developing their community leadership skills, CF Leads uses the Framework for Community Leadership by a Community Foundation. The Framework was developed by the National Task Force on Community Leadership.
Tool
NORTHERN FOREST CENTER’S COMMUNITY FOREST RESOURCES
Northern Forest Center
The Northern Forest Center, in collaboration with partners across the region, has compiled this list of resources for landowners, community members, towns, and others interested in conserving and managing forested land for a mix of uses and community benefit.
Blog
Federal Policy Scan: Rebuild Rural America Act 2021
With a new administration in Washington, we can expect many proposals for shifting the direction of rural policy and programming....