Rural Narratives

THE RURAL APERTURE PROJECT: LEVERAGING DATA TO GAIN NEW INSIGHTS INTO RURAL AMERICA
Center On Rural Innovation
Insights on how we can promote accurate rural narratives and increase local media to build trust and new relationships across geography.

Language & Learning Resource for Non-Indigenous People
Native Americans in Philanthropy
Language matters; the words we use carry power. This resource is for those who wish to expand their understanding of Indigenous communities and how they intersect with the philanthropic sector.

Rural and Native Celebrations of the LGBTQ+ Community
A collection of rural, queer organizations and stories about rural communities and Native nations celebrating the LGBTQ+ community. Explore these moments to learn more about how queer people are celebrated in rural spaces.

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

Moving Mindsets: How to Shape a Strategy
Frameworks
Want to change hearts and minds? Shift policy? Bring about structural change? It starts with knowing what mindsets are—and aren’t—and what it takes to shift them.

THE DAILY YONDER
The Daily Yonder
The Daily Yonder provides news, commentary, and analysis about and for rural America. It is published by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Center for Rural Strategies.

MINDSET SHIFTS
FrameWorks
A FrameWorks Strategic Report for those working on and funding mindset shifts.

RECLAIMING NATIVE TRUTH
Reclaiming Native Truth
Reclaiming Native Truth is a national effort to foster cultural, social and policy change by empowering Native Americans to counter discrimination, invisibility and the dominant narratives that limit Native opportunity, access to justice, health and self-determination.

AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT
American Journalism Project
Local journalism keeps communities informed and holds the powerful accountable. It is the key to an informed citizenry and provides the tools to safeguard a healthy democracy — but the industry is in crisis.

The Rural Blog
Institute for Rural Journalism
A digest of events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism from and about rural America, by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, based at the University of Kentucky.

WHAT’S IN AND WHAT’S OUT IN NATIVE REPRESENTATION
Illuminative

HOW TO TALK ABOUT RURAL ISSUES
Frameworks Institute
This brief summary highlights FrameWorks Institute’s research on public perceptions of rural issues. See research highlights, recommendations, and examples of framing decisions this research helps to clarify.