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 Hawai’i, we work with Hub partners that coordinate across sectors, align resources, and connect communities to advance long-term regional strategies:
Vibrant Hawaiʻi is a community-based nonprofit focused on strengthening Hawaiʻi Island through equitable economic development, education, health, housing, and resilience efforts. It creates trusted “Resilience Hubs”—people-powered community centers designed to deliver place-based, culturally grounded resources and support local solutions. Through programs like economic mobilization, workforce development, and youth engagement, the organization connects residents to services and opportunities while promoting collective responsibility—rooted in the principle of ʻauamo kuleana—to build mutual human, cultural, and financial capital.
Vibrant Hawai’i is featured in these Aspen CSG resources: Measure Up: Call to Action, Mapping a New Terrain: Call to Action, and more.
Rural Community Assistance Corporation
The Rural Community Assistance Corporation (RCAC) is a nonprofit organization, founded in 1978, dedicated to supporting underserved rural and Indigenous communities across the Western US through technical assistance, training, financial resources, and advocacy. RCAC’s work spans environmental infrastructure, affordable housing, community resilience and disaster planning, economic and leadership development, and community finance. Serving communities in states such as Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Washington, RCAC acts as the Western hub for the national Rural Community Assistance Partnership (RCAP) network.
