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 Utah and the Navajo Nation, we work with Hub partners that coordinate across sectors, align resources, and connect communities to advance long-term regional strategies.
Chinle Planting Hope
Service area: Navajo Nation.
Chinle Planting Hope (CPH) is a grassroots organization headquartered in Chinle, Arizona, in the heart of the Navajo Nation. Chinle Planting Hope practices asset-based community development and invests in projects that build up the physical, social, educational and spiritual health of all community members. CPH tries both to identify regional strengths and to meet community needs in ways that strengthen dignity, empowerment and cooperation.
Visit organization: chinleplantinghope.com
Rural Community Assistance Corporation
Service area: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and and Wyoming.
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.
Visit organization: rcac.org
