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 Mississippi, we work with Hub partners that coordinate across sectors, align resources, and connect communities to advance long-term regional strategies:
The CREATE Foundation serves as a philanthropic resource for comprehensive charitable planning, supporting individuals, nonprofits, communities, and businesses. Working together with fund donors, grant recipients, organizations, and communities, the Foundation is a powerful catalyst for building charitable resources for its region.
The Higher Purpose Hub is a regional nonprofit intermediary based in Clarksdale, Mississippi, launched in 2016 to improve intergenerational economic opportunity across the Mississippi Delta. HPH advances its mission through education, grantmaking, storytelling, and programs spanning business ownership, arts and culture, food and agriculture, health and wellness, and capital access.
Higher Purpose Hub is featured in these Aspen CSG resources: The Power of Connection: Rural Development Hubs in Action
Hope Enterprise Corporation (HEC) is a community development financial institution (CDFI) dedicated to strengthening communities, building assets, and improving lives in under-resourced communities throughout Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
Hope Enterprise Organization is featured in these Aspen CSG resources: Funding Rural Futures: A Call to Action and Thrive Rural Theory of Change Working Group (2019-2021)
The Mississippi Center for Cultural Production is an approach and resource for cultivating thriving communities. Based in the rural South, “Sipp Culture” is honoring the history and building the future of its community of Utica, MS. Sipp Culture supports community development from the ground up through cultural production focused on self-determination and agency.
