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 Montana and Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, we work with Hub partners that coordinate across sectors, align resources, and connect communities to advance long-term regional strategies:
NACDC Financial Services’ mission is to remove the barriers that exist in Indian Country that prohibit the flow of capital and credit. They address the critical needs in Native communities related to the growth of family assets and sustainable economic development.
NACDC Financial Services is featured in these Aspen CSG resources: Four Principles for Fostering Community Well-Being with Asset-Based Development
People’s Partner for Community Development
People’s Partner for Community Development is a Native-led non-profit organization serving the communities of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Montana. They help create a stronger reservation economy while maintaining strong connections to land, traditional values and cultural history.
Since 1996, Wallowa Resources has enhanced opportunities on our forests and grasslands while caring for the land and water for future generations. They work with public and private partners to support Wallowa County and other rural communities in northeast Oregon.
Wallowa Resources is featured in these Aspen CSG resources: Rural Action Roundtable on Equity, Tapping Rural Innovation for a Clean Energy Economy, Measure Up: Call to Action, and more
Established in 1998, NeighborWorks Montana is a leader in housing education and counseling, an innovator in single-family lending, a trusted source of gap financing for developers, and a champion of self-sufficiency for residents in manufactured home parks.
Opportunity Link (OL), a non profit organization committed to assisting 11 counties and 3 reservations, continues to assist the communities of Northcentral Montana achieve and sustain independence, prosperity and a better way of life. Opportunity Link breaks down historically isolated silos of service and acts as a resource broker between diverse communities, races, incomes and governments.
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 U.S. 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.
