Aspen CSG serve as a central hub (connector and catalyst of ideas, people, and information) for those seeking to improve equity, opportunity, health, and prosperity in rural places. We actively center racial, geographic, and class equity throughout our work.
Our work is guided by the Thrive Rural Framework, which provides both a shared vision and a line of sight into our current understanding of the local and systems conditions necessary to realize that vision. Communities of all sizes across the US rely on rural people and places for water, energy, and food — making the health and economic prosperity of these places essential.
About Thrive Rural
A group of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grantees and partners (including Aspen CSG) are working towards a future where communities and Native nations across the rural United States are healthy places where each and every person belongs, lives with dignity, and thrives. The Thrive Rural Framework provides a roadmap to identify needs, set priorities, spur collaboration around actionable goals, and measure progress.
See below for how this group is helping shape and make progress toward this shared vision.
How you can Engage with us
- Sign up for our newsletter.
- Attend an event.
- Tell us about your effort that is contributing toward a future where communities and Native nations across the rural United States are places where each and every person belongs, lives with dignity, and thrives.
Funding for our work has been generously given by: Annie E. Casey Foundation and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.