Rural Knowledge Center

Rural Resources, Insights, and Collaborations by Aspen CSG and Partners

Collaborative Strategies for Rural Health & Economic Prosperity

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.

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ERADICATING RURAL POVERTY: THE POWER OF COOPERATION

Nonprofit Quarterly

Rural America is far more diverse than how it is portrayed in media and popular culture. This series from Partners for Rural Transformation and NPQ highlights that topic and efforts to address multi-generational poverty.

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KEEPING RURAL BUSINESSES OPEN ACROSS GENERATIONS

The Daily Yonder

Selling a company to its employees could be a way to preserve small town and rural businesses with generations of tradition behind them. Rob Brown from Business Ownership Solutions has some advice on how to do it.

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N.C.’S BORDER BELT INDEPENDENT PROVIDES A NEW APPROACH TO RURAL JOURNALISM

The Daily Yonder

Read this Daily Yonder article about a nonprofit newsroom in southeast North Carolina helping change the journalism landscape in four rural counties.

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Resources to Advance Rural Prosperity & Racial Equity

ChangeLab Solutions

Resilience and ingenuity are hallmarks of rural communities, stemming from their unique cultural and social histories. Given the diversity and varied strengths in rural places, policy solutions need to be tailored to the conditions and lived experiences of people in those communities.

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Advancing Regional Action Infrastructure

Jul. 18th, 2023, 1PM

Learn how rural practitioners are advancing regional action infrastructure and how your community can strengthen regional networks and work across communities.

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Growing Equitable Outdoor Recreation Economies

Discussion with rural leaders on the opportunity equitable outdoor recreation economies pose to rural areas.

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Sustaining Momentum in Rural Development

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

Anita Brown-Graham describes the key components of lasting development in rural communities. She shared these insights in her keynote at the...

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Journey Toward Racial Equity Report

United Philanthropy Forum

In 2019, the Forum commissioned the design and implementation of a Racial Equity Organizational Self-Assessment for PSOs to support its members along their racial equity journeys by capturing a snapshot of their internal and external racial equity efforts. In 2022, the Forum launched a follow-up assessment to continue to benchmark the progress.

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Recompete Pilot Program Webinar

Jun. 29th, 2023, 3PM

Join our upcoming webinar on on the Recompete Pilot program, which aims to invest $200M in geographically diverse economically distressed communities.

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Pathways to Health Equity: Rural Wellbeing and Regional Assets

How the health equity and economic development fields intersect and can collaborate to bring prosperity to rural communities.

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Maximizing New Federal Investments in Broadband for Rural America

Brookings Institution

Congress has appropriated billions of dollars to close the digital divide, but rural areas most likely to encounter challenges to access and adoption. How can smart policy help end the digital divide once and for all?

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Building Trust With Community-Based Participatory Research

This research brief explores how rural MSIs and approaches to community-based participatory research can be used to better understand MSIs’ nature and practices.