Search Results for: capacity
Rural Development Hubs
What is a Rural Development Hub? A rural development hub is a place-rooted organization that works hand-in-glove with people and...
Using the Thrive Rural Framework: Gauging Progress
The Thrive Rural Framework can help you set goals and track progress over time. You can use this information to...
Whole Family Prosperity
Aspen CSG builds the capacity of practitioners and policymakers to help families on the economic margins earn more, keep more...
Shared Prosperity: Building Power Towards an Equitable Rural Economy
Oct. 13th, 2021, 11AM
Building power and capacity within groups on the economic and social margins is a crucial component for strong, healthy and economically diverse rural communities.
Community Development Philanthropy
Aspen CSG is building the number and capacity of community- and region-focused foundations that are taking leadership on – and...
Forwarding the Rural Development Agenda
Report serves as an intelligence gathering support document in order to suggest areas to focus capacity development efforts in terms of issues needing to be addressed, possible approaches and suggested target audiences for the Aspen Institute's Rural Development Program.
Rural Development Hubs Report
This report focuses on the role — and aggregates the wisdom — of a specific set of intermediaries that are doing development differently in rural America. We focus on Rural Development Hubs because they are main players advancing an asset-based, wealth-building, approach to rural community and economic development.
Shifting Funding to Meet Community Needs
Insights and learnings from rural practitioners and funders on how funders can work to transform their thinking and action to better support their communities.
Resources for Rural Communities
Aspen CSG serves as a connecting hub for equitable rural community and economic development. We design and facilitate action-inducing peer learning among rural practitioners, national and regional organizations, and policymakers. We build networks, foster collaboration, and advance best practices from the field.
Prepare Action-Able Leadership
Communities have and prepare leaders with the will, skills, relationships, diversity, knowledge, and power needed to fully engage the community and the region to establish, align, and achieve priorities that increase both well-being and equity outcomes.
Redesign Required: Four Ideas for Reimagining Federal Rural Policy in the COVID-19 Era
This is the second in a series (see Part 1) on how to ensure development investments that are part of...
Organize an Action Infrastructure
Communities have the local and regional institutions, policies, systems, data, information, media, and resources needed to establish, align and achieve priorities that increase both well-being and equity.