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
Tool
Health Justice & the Drivers of Inequity
ChangeLab Solutions
The health justice framework is an approach to eliminating health disparities based on law and policy reforms that center subordination as a key driver of disparities.
Blog
Community Engagement and Clean Tech
Time Magazine
An article on: Why Better Community Engagement is Key to The Future of Clean Tech.
Blog
Rural Disaster Preparedness: Partnering for Resilience & Resources
Event recap blog with resources and big-picture insights on rural disaster preparedness.
Report
The Equity of Economic Opportunity in Rural America
The Center on Rural Innovation (CORI)
Research on rural America’s economic opportunity from CORI highlights growing disparities due to the knowledge economy’s focus on urban areas. It emphasizes the need for equitable policy and investment in rural regions to address systemic inequities and enable rural participation in the knowledge economy.
Blog
Built Infrastructure and Regional Development
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy, and Society
Article that argues that infrastructural systems’ material, social, fiscal and political dimensions potentially deepen rather than mitigate structural ‘left behind-ness’.
Tool
Citizens’ Institute on Rural Design
CIRD empowers local citizens to use their unique artistic and cultural resources to guide local development and shape the future design of their communities.
Blog
Building Community Capacity in Rural East Texas
NPQ
What would it look like for rural civic infrastructure to thrive, not just survive, in the 21st century? Work in East Texas, where T.L.L. Temple and Communities Unlimited are teaming to develop bottom-up structural solutions to building rural capacity.
Blog
Field Based Rural Placemaking: Event Recap
This post-event blog has concrete rural placemaking strategies and takeaways relevant to communities of every size.
Event
Field Based Rural Placemaking: What Works Fast, Now, and on a Shoestring
Nov. 2nd, 2023, 2PM
Join this webinar for concrete placemaking strategies and takeaways relevant to rural communities of every size—even the most isolated and least resourced.
Blog
Will EDA’s Recompete Pilot Program reach rural America?
Brookings Institution
Brookings Institute authors offer recommendations on how rural areas can maximize the opportunity to compete for Distressed Area Recompete Pilot Program funding.
Blog
From Competition to Cooperation: Insights on Rural Wealth Creation
Insights from rural practitioners who are advancing equitable prosperity and economic development in a way that embraces and strengthens the unique assets of rural regions.
Tool
Vital Conditions for Health and Well-Being
Rippel
The vital conditions are an evolution, not a replacement, of the social determinants model that has been prevalent since its emergence in the early 2000s. A framework for community health and change.