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Thrive Rural Reflection: Local and Systems Level Assets
Many resources center asset-framing as primarily a household-level and local issue. But what is the systems-level responsibility for acting on assets?
Chris Estes
Co-Executive Director
Recommendation for Delegated-Authority Grant
Document provides background and summary of a grant that would underwrite planning process for a major initiative to link rural advocacy and policy research organizations active U.S. rural poverty and development through HandsNet, a telecommunications company.
Our Approach
Aspen CSG advances an asset-based, wealth-building, approach to rural community and economic development.
The Injustice of Repeated Flooding
Jan. 30th, 2024, 2PM
What structural challenges keep rural communities from addressing repeated flooding? What will it take for rural communities to drive their own solutions to repeated flooding?
Policy Proposals for Economic Development in the Rural South
Report produces a series of policy proposals designed to address the shortcomings and comparative disadvantages of rural Southern economic development.
Weaving Health Equity and Rural Development Through Data
Learnings, insights, and resources to better understand where progress is needed on weaving health equity and rural development and what wins we all can celebrate.
Piney Road: Work, Education, and Family Dynamics
Paper aims to use case study of several families in the Piney Road community of Georgia to highlight situational aspects of poverty, education, family, and work in the Rural South.
Cohesive Rural Policy Lens
Federal and state governments cohesively develop, tailor, and align the design, implementation, regulations, and incentives in policy and laws to ensure rural access and provide a predictable stream of public resources that can be used flexibly, as locally determined, for rural benefit.
Safe Drinking Water: Rural Economic Justice Case Study
This short case study has insights on what will it take for rural communities to drive their own clean water solutions and breaks down the structural challenges that keep rural communities from accessing clean water solutions.
Building Engines for Rural Endowment Framework
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.
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.