CSG Publication
From Belonging To Thriving: Rural Communities Welcoming Newcomers
Short case study with lessons learned, gaps in current approaches, and potential models for community leaders to move forward together.
Making Broadband Work for Rural Communities and Native nations
Discover strategies to improve rural internet access, emphasizing broadband as an essential utility and highlighting the need for alignment, sustainability, and continuous learning.
Collaborative Strategies for Rural Health & Economic Prosperity
Insights and recommendations to do rural development and rural health differently—moving collectively toward equitable rural development with projects grounded in place and a people-centered vision of community impact.
Funding Rural Futures: A Call to Action
What it will take to make more flexible and responsive funding available to rural development organizations serving low-income and persistent poverty rural regions?
Safe Drinking Water: Rural Economic Justice Case Study
Learn about the barriers rural communities face to accessing safe drinking water, and how they're working to develop clean water systems.
Building Funder Capacity to Work with Communities
This short case study has insights and tips on how funders are shifting gears to learn communities’ processes and practices, enabling more equitable partnerships and impactful projects that meet community needs.
Rural Environmental Justice: Community Flooding Case Study
This short case study has insights and tips on addressing the causes and conditions contributing to flooding in rural places, as well as to envision and build thriving futures of equitable rural prosperity.
Connecting Minority-Serving Institutions and Rural Research
Exploring the potential for MSIs to produce more rural research and integrate rural perspectives into established and developing rural-focused research systems.
Building Trust With Community-Based Participatory Research
This research brief explores how rural MSIs and approaches to community-based participatory research can be used to better understand MSIs’ nature and practices.