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.
WealthWorks
Worksheet and small group discussion questions tool from WealthWorks.
Center for Rural Affairs
Leaders are the life-blood of small towns and rural communities. A resource from the Center for Rural Affairs on rural leadership.
RuraLEAD Development Initiative
RuraLead explored these essential questions: Who gets to lead? Who has power in rural places? What constitutes good leadership? What does it look like in practice? How do people become leaders in rural communities? How do we strengthen and support rural leadership?
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Rural Development Initiatives (RDI) shares lessons from their Rural Community Leadership Program.
West Virginia Community Development Hub
Check out the West Virginia Community Development Hub’s case studies of leaders bringing hope and opportunity. These are the stories of real West Virginians who are making a difference.
Collective Impact Forum
Watch a recorded webinar from Impact Lufkin and hear about what they’ve learned starting a collective impact effort in rural Texas, including working with the Lufkin community.
Collective Impact Forum
A video recording of a coffee conversation focused on the outcomes of a rural collective impact effort in Montana.
Collective Impact Forum
Collective impact is a network of community members, organizations, and institutions who advance equity by learning together, aligning, and integrating their actions to achieve population and systems level change.
N.C. Cooperative Extension
A handbook by NC State Extension explores coming together, staying together, and growing together as social mechanisms for successful rural revitalization collaborations and provide examples of their use in practice.
Wallace Center at Winrock International
The Food Systems Leadership Network is a national peer learning community that connects current and emerging leaders, strengthens individual and collective leadership capacity, and fosters collaboration across communities.
United States Department of Agriculture
This USDA resource guide is designed to give readers a greater understanding of what regional food hubs are, their impacts, strategies to assist their success and growth, and direction on where to find financial resources to support them.
Appalachian Regional Commission
YouTube recording of the The Appalachian Regional Commission event One Appalachia: Connection and Collaboration.
