Rural Development Hubs
RURAL LEADERS
Center for Rural Affairs
Leaders are the life-blood of small towns and rural communities. A resource from the Center for Rural Affairs on rural leadership.
RURALEAD
RuraLEAD Development Initiative
RuraLead explored these essential questions: Who gets to lead? Who has power in rural places? What constitutes good leadership? What does it look like in practice? How do people become leaders in rural communities? How do we strengthen and support rural leadership?
MEETING LEADERS WHERE THEY ARE
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Rural Development Initiatives (RDI) shares lessons from their Rural Community Leadership Program.
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West Virginia Community Development Hub
Check out the West Virginia Community Development Hub’s case studies of leaders bringing hope and opportunity. These are the stories of real West Virginians who are making a difference.
COLLECTIVE IMPACT IN A RURAL CONTEXT: WHAT SHOULD YOU THINK ABOUT?
Collective Impact Forum
Watch a recorded webinar from Impact Lufkin and hear about what they’ve learned starting a collective impact effort in rural Texas, including working with the Lufkin community.
LESSONS LEARNED FROM RURAL COLLECTIVE IMPACT EFFORTS IN MONTANA
Collective Impact Forum
A video recording of a coffee conversation focused on the outcomes of a rural collective impact effort in Montana.
WHAT IS COLLECTIVE IMPACT?
Collective Impact Forum
Collective impact is a network of community members, organizations, and institutions who advance equity by learning together, aligning, and integrating their actions to achieve population and systems level change.
WORKING TOGETHER: A GUIDE TO COLLABORATION IN RURAL REVITALIZATION
N.C. Cooperative Extension
A handbook by NC State Extension explores coming together, staying together, and growing together as social mechanisms for successful rural revitalization collaborations and provide examples of their use in practice.
FOOD SYSTEMS LEADERSHIP NETWORK
Wallace Center at Winrock International
The Food Systems Leadership Network is a national peer learning community that connects current and emerging leaders, strengthens individual and collective leadership capacity, and fosters collaboration across communities.
WORKING TOGETHER: A GUIDE TO COLLABORATION IN RURAL REVITALIZATION
North Carolina State University
Leaders from six Southern cities reflect on and discuss their experiences and what they’ve learned about mobilizing communities to challenge racism and build more equitable systems.
ADDING CAPACITY HELPS COMMUNITIES THRIVE
Northern Forest Center
The reality is that most local leaders don’t need a lesson, they just need a hand. Reflections on community capacity from the Northern Forest Center.
ACCELERATING RURAL PROSPERITY THROUGH REGIONAL COLLABORATION
National League of Cities
Findings from the chapter on collaborative development, authored by Brian Dabson and Christiana K. McFarland, in the book “Investing in Rural Prosperity”.