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From the Delta to Aspen: Elevating Rural Voices & Solutions

At the Aspen Ideas Festival, Justin Archer Burch brought what’s working in the Delta to a national stage, ensuring rural, Southern, and community-rooted solutions are part of the conversation.

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Rural Collaboration: Lessons From ROADs Initiative

This ROADs culmination event recap highlights the power of rural collaboration, focusing on capacity building, coalition efforts, and innovative partnerships for rural advocacy.

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Rural Policy Resources

A collection of resources provided by the Brookings Institution emerging from their rural research.

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Pathways to Rural Health Equity and Wellbeing

How the health equity and economic development fields intersect and can collaborate to bring prosperity to rural communities.

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2023 County Health Rankings Analysis

County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (CHR&R) brings actionable data, evidence, guidance and stories to support community-led efforts to grow community...

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ChangeLab Solutions’ Toward Better Rural Futures

ChangeLab Solutions' new blog series highlights key learnings from their most recent rural project, Toward Better Rural Futures.

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The Rural Data Portal

The Rural Data Portal is a simple, easy-to-use online resource that provides essential information on the social, economic, and housing characteristics of communities in the United States.

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Rural Community College Excellence: A Guide to Delivering Strong Opportunity for Students and Communities

Rural community colleges serve over 1.5 million students, yet often receive less attention compared to their urban and suburban counterparts. To address this gap, the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program shares examples of high-achieving rural colleges.

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Housing Justice Narrative Toolkit

At Aspen CSG, we recognize that how we tell stories about housing matters as much as the facts we share....

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Rural Capacity Map

To help identify communities with limited capacity, Headwaters Economics created a new Rural Capacity Index.

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Rural Playbook

Playbook of rural hospitals pioneering creative partnerships with community development that pave the way for further investments in their communities.

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Research Report Findings: Investing in Dismantling Structural Racism and Economic Inequity in Rural America 

Report authors provide recommendations to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for development of a network to help to dismantle structural racism and economic inequity in rural America.