Search Results for: capacity
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...
Rural Development Hubs
A Rural Development Hub is a place-rooted organization that works within and across a region to build inclusive wealth, increase local capacity, and create opportunities for better livelihoods, health, and wellbeing.
The Power of Rural Collaboration and Coalition Building
Jun. 17th, 2024, 4PM
Join our June 17 webinar to discuss capacity development, collaboration, and coalition building.
Using the Thrive Rural Framework: Gauging Progress
The Thrive Rural Framework can help you set goals and track progress over time. You can use this information to...
Whole Family Prosperity
Aspen CSG builds the capacity of practitioners and policymakers to help families on the economic margins earn more, keep more...
Shared Prosperity: Building Power Towards an Equitable Rural Economy
Oct. 13th, 2021, 11AM
Building power and capacity within groups on the economic and social margins is a crucial component for strong, healthy and economically diverse rural communities.
Forwarding the Rural Development Agenda
Report serves as an intelligence gathering support document in order to suggest areas to focus capacity development efforts in terms of issues needing to be addressed, possible approaches and suggested target audiences for the Aspen Institute's Rural Development Program.
Community Development Philanthropy
Aspen CSG is building the number and capacity of community- and region-focused foundations that are taking leadership on – and...
Rural Development Hubs Report
This report focuses on the role — and aggregates the wisdom — of a specific set of intermediaries that are doing development differently in rural America. We focus on Rural Development Hubs because they are main players advancing an asset-based, wealth-building, approach to rural community and economic development.
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?
Shifting Funding to Meet Community Needs
Insights and learnings from rural practitioners and funders on how funders can work to transform their thinking and action to better support their communities.
Prepare Action-Able Leadership
Communities have and prepare leaders with the will, skills, relationships, diversity, knowledge, and power needed to fully engage the community and the region to establish, align, and achieve priorities that increase both well-being and equity outcomes.