Funding Rural Futures: Call to Action
What it will take to make more flexible and responsive funding available to organizations serving low-income and persistent poverty rural regions?
Rural Knowledge Center
Rural Resources, Insights, and Collaborations by Aspen CSG and Partners
Report
Event
Investing in Infrastructure: Rural Strategies for Building and Maintaining Healthy Local Economies
Jul. 2nd, 2022, 4PM
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Pathfinders: Climate-Smart Solutions from Rural America and Native Nations
Jul. 7th, 2022, 2PM
Drought and wildfire in the West, rising seas and erosion in the Mississippi River Delta, and erratic weather patterns throughout...
Report
Measure Up: A Call to Action
Today, we have a generational opportunity to strengthen prosperity and equity in communities and Native nations across the rural United...
Report
Annotated List of Resources for Measuring Rural Development Progress
This Annotated List of Resources for Measuring Rural Development Progress is part of Measure Up: A Call to Action. It was developed and...
Report
Measure Up: A Call to Action — Executive Summary
This is the Executive Summary for Measure Up: A Call to Action. It highlights six principles for measuring rural development progress to...
Blog
Environmental Justice Practices & Resources for Rural Communities
Practitioner insights and resources on rural environmental justice, including ideas on just and equitable energy transitions.
Research Brief
What (and Who) Counts? Defining Rural Development Success
There are no easy solutions for the many challenges that rural Americans face, but it’s clear that rural communities themselves...
Report
Defining distress: Lessons from the Federally Chartered Regional Commissions
Brookings Institution
Brookings Institute authors propose three considerations to help refine the meaning and use of “distress” and improve the effectiveness of rural policy.
Blog
Naturally Balanced: What does it take to steward the land and grow rural prosperity?
Rural and Native communities have been stewarding the land for generations. Many are using new ways of growing nature and...
Blog
Losing Forward: Lessons from Organizing for Narrative Change
NPQ
How can community groups shift narratives? A ballot initiative campaign from 2020 provides some important lessons.
Blog
Better Results: What does it take to build capacity in rural and Native nations communities?
Insights and learnings from rural practitioners on how organizational capacity and technical assistance can be carefully and intentionally strengthened to grow economies, health, and livelihoods for each and every person in their regions.
Blog
Rural Capacity-Building Tips From and for Funders
On April 8, 2022, around 90 community and economic development practitioners and community members gathered at a Thrive Rural Open...