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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Emergency Preparedness for Older Adults
National Council on Aging (NCOA)
NCOA's guide has actionable steps for effective emergency preparedness includes considerations for people with sensory impairments, service animals, and specific chronic diseases.
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Taking Stock
Housing Assistance Council
First published in 1984, Taking Stock is HAC's decennial research publication. The 2023 edition of Taking Stock continues this legacy of presenting social, economic, and housing trends for rural places and people.
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Video: Solutions Slam at Radically Rural
Radically Rural
Solutions Slam & Reimagining Rural: Connecting the Dots with a Rural Framework. Featuring Aspen CSG.
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Better Arguments Stories
The Better Arguments Project
American civic life doesn’t need fewer arguments; it needs better arguments. Find stories of communities coming together through better arguments.
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Advancing Rural Health Equity Through Partnerships, Data, And Finance
Partners for Rural Transformation
Partnerships and data-driven strategies are essential for addressing health disparities in rural America. Learn more from an event hosted by the Partners for Rural Transformation and the Urban Institute.
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Othering and Belonging Resource Page
Othering and Belonging Institute
The Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley advances groundbreaking approaches to transforming structural marginalization and inequality.
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Health Justice & the Drivers of Inequity
ChangeLab Solutions
The health justice framework is an approach to eliminating health disparities based on law and policy reforms that center subordination as a key driver of disparities.
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Arts Midwest Blog
Arts Midwest
The power of stories can be an important tool for building welcoming communities. Read more to learn about the different approaches taken by members of Welcoming America's network.
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Community Engagement and Clean Tech
Time Magazine
An article on: Why Better Community Engagement is Key to The Future of Clean Tech.
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Rural Disaster Preparedness: Partnering for Resilience
Event recap blog with resources and big-picture insights on rural disaster preparedness.
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The Equity of Economic Opportunity in Rural America
The Center on Rural Innovation (CORI)
Research on rural America’s economic opportunity from CORI highlights growing disparities due to the knowledge economy’s focus on urban areas. It emphasizes the need for equitable policy and investment in rural regions to address systemic inequities and enable rural participation in the knowledge economy.
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Built Infrastructure and Regional Development
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society
Article that argues that infrastructural systems’ material, social, fiscal and political dimensions potentially deepen rather than mitigate structural ‘left behind-ness’.