Aspen CSG partners with Rural Development Hubs across the country to strengthen local leadership, align funding, and build regional capacity. Through research and peer learning, we support Hub leaders to refine strategies and apply what works across regions.
In Arkansas, we work with Hub partners that coordinate across sectors, align resources, and connect communities to advance long-term regional strategies:
Communities Unlimited connects rural Americans to solutions that sustain healthy businesses, healthy communities, and healthy lives. They believe that access to opportunities should not depend on where you live, how much you have in the bank, or what you look like.
Communities Unlimited is featured in these Aspen CSG resources: Measure Up: A Call to Action, Rural Development Hubs Report, Ten Podcasts Focused on Rural Community and Economic Development, Four Principles for Fostering Community Well-Being with Asset-Based Development, and more.
Southern Bancorp Community Partners
Southern Bancorp Community Partners (SBCP) is a certified nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution that provides lending, financial development services, and public policy advocacy in economically distressed communities. Part of the Southern Bancorp family of financial organizations, SBCP works in tandem with Southern Bancorp, Inc., a bank holding company and Southern Bancorp Bank, one of America’s largest rural development banks, toward a shared mission of creating economic opportunity for all.
Southern Bancorp Community Partners is featured in these Aspen CSG resources: A Few Things to Know About Rural America
Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation exists to relentlessly pursue equity—economic, educational, social, ethnic, and racial—for all Arkansans. WRF supports organizations and leaders who work to expand access to opportunity so that every Arkansan can earn a living wage, pursue quality education, and create a future where their families thrive.
