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
Blog
Navigating The Rural Green Economy’s Challenges and Solutions
There are insights and essential lessons for the green economy of the future coming out of rural communities across America.
Blog
How to Fund Narrative Ecosystems
NPQ
How can philanthropy effectively support narratives of liberation? This blog shares some implications for the practice of grantmaking and capacity building.
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Affordable Housing Advances Rural Wellbeing
Housing-related resources from our partners that are helpful for rural people and places.
Event
The Injustice of Repeated Flooding
Jan. 30th, 2024, 2PM
What structural challenges keep rural communities from addressing repeated flooding? What will it take for rural communities to drive their own solutions to repeated flooding?
Blog
Appalachia – Fed Communities Case Study
Fed Communities
Appalachian Funders Network, an organization formed in 2010 to drive collaborative partnerships to support the region, works to accelerate an equitable Appalachian transition by convening and connecting funders for learning, analysis, and collaboration.
Blog
Idaho – Fed Communities Case Study
Fed Communities
As executive director and founder of Idaho Partners for Good, Blossom helps nonprofits in the state to be successful in impacting their communities. A blog about Idaho.
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What’s in it for rural? Accessing rural resources in the IIJA, CHIPs, and IRA
Jan. 31st, 2024, 2PM
Join this webinar to hear opportunities that are most significant to rural communities in this historic legislation and what can help unlock investment to meet their needs.
Blog
What Is Possible When High-Speed Broadband Comes To Town
Center on Rural Innovation (CORI)
The impact of high-speed broadband in rural America can be transformative, enabling job attraction, innovation hubs, youth tech education, entrepreneurial growth, and improved health outcomes. Learn what’s possible when high-speed internet comes to town from five innovative communities across the US.
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Navigating Outmigration
Neighborworks
Population shifts are stressing a market that already has a limited — or non-existent — supply of affordable homes, and despite being in the "post-pandemic" era, the changes in rural communities seem to be sticking.
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Messaging Resources for Equity
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
RWJF created several resources to help talk about issues of health equity and structural racism in health.
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Changing the Narrative
NBC News
NBC News explores how individuals and communities are coming together to overcome a history of racial trauma and inequity and how all communities can support racial healing.
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Mental Health and New Mexico RISE
Daily Yonder
New Mexico’s RISE, or Reach Intervene Support Engage program, serves 10 rural counties across the state, allowing each of them to custom design services they provide.