Rural Resources, Insights, and Collaborations by Aspen CSG and Partners
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.
USDA Rural Development
The Rural America Placemaking Toolkit is a resource guide to showcase a variety of placemaking activities, projects, and success stories across rural America.
United Nations Development Programme
The Sustainable Development Goals were adopted by the United Nations in 2015 as a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure that by 2030 all people enjoy peace and prosperity.
USDA Rural Development
The Rural America Placemaking Toolkit is a resource guide to showcase a variety of placemaking activities, projects, and success stories across rural America.
SUNY Geneseo
Design thinking, or Human Centered Design, is a process for creative problem solving used by various sectors that puts people at the center of the design process.
Just Transition Fund
The Just Transition Fund is on a mission to create economic opportunity for the frontline communities and workers hardest hit by the transition away from coal.
The Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis
The NORC Walsh Center for Rural Health Analysis conducted formative research to enhance understanding of strengths and assets in rural places, identify key partners and change agents, and identify opportunities to leverage assets to improve rural health and equity.
Community-Wealth.org
Resources do not represent community wealth unless communities own and control them. This handbook looks at various kinds of shared ownership.
National League of Cities
Case studies and recommendations for practitioners and leaders to advance an economic connectivity framework that not only drives growth but also contributes to more equitable economies in which all people can participate, prosper and reach their full potential.
WealthWorks
A new book by WealthWorks coach Shanna Ratner that explores building wealth locally and asset-based economic development.
Housing Can't Wait
Housing Can’t Wait is a grassroots initiative to address the need for immediate single-family homes for residents who lost their houses in the devastating 2022 Eastern Kentucky flooding.
Community Commons
The Seven Vital Conditions for Well-Being is a useful framework for conceptualizing holistic well-being and the Conditions that give rise to it, as well as identifying levers for community change and improvement.
Center for Research on Disability
The Annual Disability Statistics Compendium, Annual Report on People With Disabilities, the Build Your Own Statistics tool, and infographics gather disability statistics published by many federal agencies into one place. They’re helpful for lawmakers and others who are working on laws or policies about disabilities, and for those writing grants for programs for people with disabilities.
