Philanthropy
Rural Health and Economic Prosperity: Executive Summary
Executive Summary for Unlocking Potential: Call to Action. Get quick takeaways and recommendations for action on equitable outdoor recreation development.
Collaborative Strategies FOR RURAL HEALTH AND 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: Call to Action
What it will take to make more flexible and responsive funding available to organizations serving low-income and persistent poverty rural regions?
Why don’t they just move? Climate change and the question of worth
Insights on how funders can support rural and Native communities in mitigating extreme weather disasters.
Shifting Funding to Meet Community Needs
Insights and learnings from rural practitioners and funders on how funders can work to transform their thinking and action to better support their communities.
Community Foundation Approaches to Housing Impact Investing
Apr. 29th, 2024, 2PM
Come share and learn how community foundations are finding innovative ways to use investment portfolios to partner with local developers & increase housing stock.
Funders Shift Thinking to Meet Community Needs
Apr. 11th, 2024, 2PM
Fair treatment and meaningful involvement require agencies and funders to shift gears and meet communities where they are. What does it take to make this shift so that communities are treated fairly and meaningfully involved in the funding process?
Building Funder Capacity to Work with Communities: A Rural Environmental Justice Case Study
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.
Maada’ooking Indigenous Grantmaking
Northland Foundation
Maada’ookiing, an effort of the Northland Foundation, offers support for Native American-led community building with grants now up to $5,000 to individuals or groups to strengthen culture and community.
GIVING FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES
Inside Philanthropy
Explore the foundations, major donors, and corporations that are making grants to nonprofits for rural communities.
EQUITABLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The community development sector mobilizes and invests more than $200 billion in public and private resources to improve the quality of life in neighborhoods that historically have been excluded from opportunity.
RWJF CULTURE OF HEALTH BLOG
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
It’s time to think differently about investing in rural America and the way we approach health and equity across its diverse communities. New research and resources show the critical connection between health, rural community and economic development.