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.
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.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
One-pager highlighting general policy approach of economic development and recent policy changes.
North Carolina State University
Leaders from six Southern cities reflect on and discuss their experiences and what they’ve learned about mobilizing communities to challenge racism and build more equitable systems.
Appalachian Regional Initiative for Stronger Economics (ARISE)
The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) and American Institutes for Research (AIR) share case studies, insights and takeaways from practitioners and resources.
Headwaters Economics
A regional approach to flood risk can help communities pool resources and implement effective solutions. Five case studies offer lessons.
Rural Revival
Rural Revival shares list of six things that will help you build momentum, cast vision, and get people excited.
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.
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Projects may not touch the numbers of people or generate the returns of urban investments, but their effects are every bit as important, and ripple far and wide through the small, intricately connected networks of rural life.
Aspen Institute Workforce Leadership Academies
Workforce Leadership Academies bring together leaders from across local workforce ecosystems into a Fellowship community to deepen networks, strengthen systems leadership skills, apply race equity and systems change frameworks to leaders’ work, and deepen understanding of effective strategies and programs.
