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Support Local Efforts for Eastern Kentucky
See our curated list of local resources and organizations aiding relief and recovery in Eastern Kentucky.
Rural Outdoor Recreation Economies: Challenges and Opportunities
Outdoor recreation is driving new opportunities for local communities in many rural places. See ways to do economic development differently with rural recreation economies.
Four Community-Centered Takeaways from Aspen Ideas Festival
Driving around my hometown of Truckee, California, I reflect on my time at the Aspen Ideas Festival this past week...
Reproductive Healthcare: An Intersectional Component of Healthy Rural Communities
Just like other momentous occasions in history, a likely topic of future conversations is “Where were you when the Supreme...
Environmental Justice Practices & Resources for Rural Communities
Practitioner insights and resources on rural environmental justice, including ideas on just and equitable energy transitions.
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...
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.
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...
Learning Through Collaboration: Field Leaders Drive Critical Conversations
Setting the scene: Over eight hundred people in the virtual room, watching and listening, sharing resources in the chat, and...
The Calm Before the Storm: Disaster Planning and Rural Resilience
Flooding, tornadoes, drought, wildfire, and other extreme weather events cause major disruption and damage wherever they occur and have potential...
Supporting EDA Reauthorization
For over a year, Aspen CSG has been leading work with Reimagining Rural Assistance Network (RRAN). RRAN is a focused,...
Building an Infrastructure of Care
This week, the White House announced its support for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework, hailing it as, “the largest long-term investment...