Community Voice

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.

Better Arguments Stories
The Better Arguments Project
American civic life doesn’t need fewer arguments; it needs better arguments. Find stories of communities coming together through better arguments.

Othering and Belonging Resource Page
Othering and Belonging Institute
The Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley advances groundbreaking approaches to transforming structural marginalization and inequality.

Community Engagement and Clean Tech
Time Magazine
An article on: Why Better Community Engagement is Key to The Future of Clean Tech.

CITIZENS’ INSTITUTE ON RURAL DESIGN
Housing Assistance Council (National Endowment For The Arts)
CIRD empowers local citizens to use their unique artistic and cultural resources to guide local development and shape the future design of their communities.

Field-Based Rural Placemaking: Event Recap
This post-event blog has concrete rural placemaking strategies and takeaways relevant to communities of every size.

Field Based Rural Placemaking: What Works Fast, Now, and on a Shoestring
Nov. 2nd, 2023, 2PM
Join this webinar for concrete placemaking strategies and takeaways relevant to rural communities of every size—even the most isolated and least resourced.

How To Organize a Rural Action Infrastructure
Discussion with rural leaders about working together across interests and regions to take advantage of opportunities.

Community Heart and Soul
Community Heart and Soul
Community Heart & Soul is a resident-driven process that engages the entire population of a town in identifying what they love most about their community, what future they want for it, and how to achieve it. Developed and field-tested over a decade in partnership with over 120 small cities and towns across America, Community Heart & Soul is a proven process for engaging a community in shaping its future.

Welcoming International Blog
Welcoming International
Inspiring change: Reflections on welcoming newcomers into rural communities in Australia and the United States

Rural Assembly Everywhere Radio
Rural Assembly
Everywhere Radio, hosted by Whitney Kimball Coe, features rural leaders and allies spotlighting the good, scrappy, joyful ways rural people are building a more inclusive nation.

MEETING LEADERS WHERE THEY ARE
Federal Reserve of St. Louis
Rural Development Initiatives (RDI) shares lessons from their Rural Community Leadership Program.