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Connecting Minority-Serving Institutions and Rural Research

Exploring the potential for MSIs to produce more rural research and integrate rural perspectives into established and developing rural-focused research systems. 

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Building Trust With Community-Based Participatory Research

This research brief explores how rural MSIs and approaches to community-based participatory research can be used to better understand MSIs’ nature and practices.

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Using Networks To Build Collaborative & Equitable Food Systems

This brief focuses on local food systems as vehicles for collaboration and racial equity among multiple stakeholders and networks.

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Defining Rural Development Success

There are no easy solutions for the many challenges that rural Americans face, but it’s clear that rural communities themselves...

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Rural Development & Health Alignment Opportunities

This first in the Thrive Rural Field Perspective Series describes the main trends and catalysts for change that emerged from...

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Community Strategies Group Thrive Rural, Rural Public Health and Health Care: A Scan of Field Practice and Trends, by University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
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...

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Issue Brief “U.S. Rural Demographic Trends and Issues in International Perspective” Workshop on Population Change and the Future of Rural America

Brief focuses on changing spatial patterns of population distribution in the United States.

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U.S. Rural Demographic Trends in International Perspective; An Issue Brief

Purpose of brief is to identify some of the major priority issues for research on rural population change that are emerging outside the United States

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Demographic Change and the Human Capital Endowment of Rural America

Brief provides an overview of facts and issues pertaining to demographic change and human capital levels in rural America.

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The Case of Rural UDAG Grants

Document provides background into nature of Urban Development Action Grant Program (UDAG), differentiated from other programs in that the grants require letters of commitment from the developer and at least 2.5 dollars of private investment for every dollar of UDAG funds.