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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Natural disaster response workers moving sand bags
Rural Disaster Preparedness: Partnering for Resilience

Event recap blog with resources and big-picture insights on rural disaster preparedness.

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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.

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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’.

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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.

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CITIZENS’ INSTITUTE ON RURAL DESIGN

Housing Assistance Council (National Endowment For The Arts)

CIRD empowers local citizens to use their unique artistic and cultural resources to guide local development and shape the future design of their communities.

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CITIZENS’ INSTITUTE ON RURAL DESIGN

Housing Assistance Council (National Endowment For The Arts)

CIRD empowers local citizens to use their unique artistic and cultural resources to guide local development and shape the future design of their communities.

Report
CAPTURING SHARED IMPACTS OF THE PARTNERS FOR RURAL TRANSFORMATION

Urban Institute

This report details how PRT is working individually and collectively to make progress toward and meet their shared goals.

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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.

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Field-Based Rural Placemaking: Event Recap

This post-event blog has concrete rural placemaking strategies and takeaways relevant to communities of every size.

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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.

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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.

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From Competition to Cooperation: 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.