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.
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.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Investing in rural leadership is key to resolving complex health issues and advancing health equity.
Aspen Institute Food & Society
USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture
The NIFA Regional Rural Development Centers link the research and educational outreach capacity of the nation’s public universities with communities, local decision-makers, entrepreneurs, families, and farmers and ranchers to help address a wide range of development issues.
Northern Forest Center
The reality is that most local leaders don’t need a lesson, they just need a hand. Reflections on community capacity from the Northern Forest Center.
