Funding & Capital Access
Collaborative Strategies FOR RURAL HEALTH AND 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.
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.
Community Foundation Approaches to Housing Impact Investing
Apr. 29th, 2024, 2PM
Come share and learn how community foundations are finding innovative ways to use investment portfolios to partner with local developers & increase housing stock.
Thriving Communities Technical Assistance
Housing and Urban Development
The Thriving Communities Technical Assistance (TCTA) program, funded in FY 2022 with $5 million, is designed to support coordination and integration of transportation and housing in infrastructure planning and implementation.
Economic Recovery Corps
IEDC
Explore the 65 catalytic projects that ERC Fellows will be advancing over the next 2.5 years alongside local host organizations and communities across the United States, U.S. Territories, and Tribal Nations.
Designing Scalable Co-Funding Solutions for Broadband and Digital Equity
Resources and learnings for rural communities to participate in the new federal funding available for high-speed broadband internet.
In It For Rural Resources: A ROADS Event Recap
Resources and learnings from webinar on new federal opportunities for funding and technical assistance for rural America.
Appalachia – Fed Communities Case Study
Fed Communities
Appalachian Funders Network, an organization formed in 2010 to drive collaborative partnerships to support the region, works to accelerate an equitable Appalachian transition by convening and connecting funders for learning, analysis, and collaboration.
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.
THE “RIPPLE EFFECT” OF INVESTING IN RURAL AMERICA
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Projects may not touch the numbers of people or generate the returns of urban investments, but their effects are every bit as important, and ripple far and wide through the small, intricately connected networks of rural life.
ACCESS TO CAPITAL AND CREDIT IN NATIVE COMMUNITIES
The University of Arizona Native Nations Institute
This report from Native Nations Institute tells a story of American Indians’, Alaska Natives’, and Native Hawaiians’ determination, progress, and hope for improved financial access and economic stability—and of their desire to build Native Communities that prosper for generations to come.