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Research Report Findings: Investing in Dismantling Structural Racism and Economic Inequity in Rural America 

Report authors provide recommendations to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for development of a network to help to dismantle structural racism and economic inequity in rural America.

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Reproductive Healthcare in Rural Communities

Just like other momentous occasions in history, a likely topic of future conversations is “Where were you when the Supreme...

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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...

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The Thrive Rural Framework
Thrive Rural Framework Overview

The Thrive Rural Framework is a new tool to help you take stock, target action, and gauge progress on rural prosperity. We...

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Thrive Rural Framework: Foundational Element

The Thrive Rural Framework is a new tool to help you take stock, target action, and gauge progress on rural prosperity. We...

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Thrive Rural Framework: Local-Level Building Blocks

The Thrive Rural Framework is a new tool to help you take stock, target action, and gauge progress on rural prosperity. We...

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Thrive Rural Framework: Systems-Level Building Blocks

The Thrive Rural Framework is a new tool to help you take stock, target action, and gauge progress on rural prosperity. We...

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HEALING-CENTERED LEADERSHIP: A PATH TO TRANSFORMATION

Nonprofit Quarterly

This article is from the Winter 2021 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly, “We Thrive: Health for Justice, Justice for Health,” and was adapted from The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves by Shawn A. Ginwright (North Atlantic Books, 2022).

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Rural Development & Health Alignment Opportunities

This first in the Thrive Rural Field Perspective Series describes the main trends and catalysts for change that emerged from...

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Community Strategies Group Thrive Rural, Rural Public Health and Health Care: A Scan of Field Practice and Trends, by University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
Rural Public Health and Health Care Trends

This field scan is a contribution to Thrive Rural, specifically intended to provide an understanding of the state of relevant...

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Opportunity Makers: Health and Equity in Rural

Nov. 10th, 2020, 3PM

POWERPOINT FOR ROADS 4 Hospitals and clinics are critical institutions in rural places not only because they provide essential healthcare...

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Why Rural Health & Health Equity Advocates Should Unite

Rural health disparities are well documented, as are racial and ethnic health disparities.