Rural Development Hubs

A Rural Development Hub is a place-rooted organization that works within and across a region to build inclusive wealth, increase local capacity, and create opportunities for better livelihoods, health, and wellbeing.

What is a Rural Development Hub?

A Rural Development Hub is a place-rooted organization that works hand-in-glove with people and organizations within and across a region to build inclusive wealth, increase local capacity, and create opportunities for better livelihoods, health, and wellbeing.

Hubs focus on all the critical ingredients in a region that either advance or impede prosperity (the people, businesses, local institutions and partnerships, and the range of natural, built, cultural, intellectual, social, political, and financial resources). Hubs work to strengthen those critical components and weave them into a system that advances enduring properties for all.

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Rural Development Hubs Report

Rural Development Hubs are a specific set of intermediaries that are doing development differently in rural America. They are main players advancing an asset-based, wealth-building, approach to rural community and economic development.

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Rural Development Hubs Executive Summary

In this brief we preview initial topline findings from the Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group’s interviews with more than 40…

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Rural Development Hubs and Federal Resource Opportunities

Apr. 12th, 2023, 1PM

Learn how to use federal funding opportunities to build bridges and develop new capacities and the importance of working regionally to maximize community assets.

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Native Nation Building: It Helps Rural America Thrive

Native nations and rural communities, working side-by-side and together, can strengthen the potential for thriving rural regions.

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Measure Up: A Call to Action

Today, we have a generational opportunity to strengthen prosperity and equity in communities and Native nations across the rural United…

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Measure Up: Call to Action — Executive Summary

This is the Executive Summary for Measure Up: A Call to Action. It highlights six principles for measuring rural development progress to…

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Building Capacity in Rural & Indigenous Communities

Insights and learnings from rural practitioners on how organizational capacity and technical assistance can be carefully and intentionally strengthened to grow economies, health, and livelihoods for each and every person in their regions.

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Advancing Regional Action Infrastructure

Jul. 18th, 2023, 1PM

Learn how rural practitioners are advancing regional action infrastructure and how your community can strengthen regional networks and work across communities.

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