Rural Resources, Insights, and Collaborations by Aspen CSG and Partners
Insights and recommendations to do rural development and rural health differently—moving collectively toward equitable rural development with projects grounded in place and a people-centered vision of community impact.
Could we construct a way for an investor, a bank, and a philanthropy in our community to team up to make consumer loans to families in distress? In doing so, could we create a blueprint that communities could also use in the wake of a natural disaster or other community crisis?
PBS
PBS features the nationally recognized and award-winning Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention (SFLR) program.
Neighborhood Funders Group
The Neighborhood Funders Group provided recommendations for those making philanthropic investments in rural communities.
The Earthbound Report
The EarthBound Report reflects on Elinor Ostrom’s research on the commons and list of principles for running the commons.
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Community benefits agreement (CBA) campaigns have become commonplace nationwide as a way to address income inequality in poor neighborhoods. The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston explored the actual effects of CBA campaigns on communities.
Apr. 20th, 2017, 11AM
This third America’s Rural Opportunity panel will focus on rural innovators who steward the nations’ natural resources and use those resources to create jobs and businesses. These innovators are rethinking and rebuilding rural economies around principles of sustainability.
Feb. 10th, 2017, 12PM
America’s Rural Opportunity is a six-part series of panel conversations that invites policymakers, economic and community development practitioners, and business and philanthropic leaders to engage in real dialogue around advancing a rural opportunity agenda.
FSG
FSG’s blog explores how Collective Impact—an approach where organizations from different sectors agree to solve a specific social problem by using a common agenda, aligning their efforts, and using common measures of success—has been implemented successfully across multiple types of geographies.
This is a workbook focuses on improving the ability of individuals, organizations, businesses, and government in their community to come together, learn, make well-reasoned decisions about the community’s present and future, and work together to carry out those decisions.
Report serves as a framework for community foundation leaders and partners attending the Margins to Mainstream: Community Foundations Advancing Economic Success Peer-Exchange Workshop.
Framework serves as a guide to help people who lead community foundations think about and act strategically to build more and better permanently endowed assets focused on vitalizing and sustaining rural areas, rural issues, and rural populations.
Guidebook is intended to promote Rural Family Economic Success (RuFES) model for helping community development practitioners and policymakers consider ways in which low-income working families can improve their livelihood.
