Infrastructure
RURAL AMERICA PLACEMAKING TOOLKIT
USDA Rural Development
The Rural America Placemaking Toolkit is a resource guide to showcase a variety of placemaking activities, projects, and success stories across rural America.
RURAL AMERICA PLACEMAKING TOOLKIT
USDA Rural Development
The Rural America Placemaking Toolkit is a resource guide to showcase a variety of placemaking activities, projects, and success stories across rural America.
Equitable Community Development Transforming neighborhoods to improve health and wellbeing.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Equitable community development focuses on the role of community development in facilitating neighborhood change to enable residents to thrive, highlighting the persistent racial disparities in community conditions and health across the United States and emphasizes the potential for change through collaborative efforts. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) seeks to ensure that community development investments prioritize local residents' needs and prevent unintended consequences like displacement.
Socially Connected Communities
Healthy Places by Design
The efforts that contributed to this report began in 2017 when the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)’s Global Ideas for U.S. Solutions team invested in an initiative to better understand social isolation and how to address it.
RURAL COMMUNITY BUILDING BEST PRACTICES
West Virginia Community Development Hub
The Hub identified six best practices that drive successful community building efforts in rural cities and towns across the state.
LESSONS FROM APPALACHIA ON INVESTING IN RURAL DOWNTOWNS
Invest Appalachia
This Playbook helps various stakeholders speak the same language of investment, identify key factors that enable investments to be successful, and provides examples of real investments that are leading to downtown revitalization in Central Appalachia.
ELKINS COMMUNITY CASE STUDY
West Virginia Community Development Hub
In Elkins, WV, creative business owners and city officials are bridging the arts and recreational tourism.
Advancing Regional Action Infrastructure
Jul. 18th, 2023, 1PM
Learn how rural practitioners are advancing regional action infrastructure and how your community can strengthen regional networks and work across communities.
Maximizing New Federal Investments in Broadband for Rural America
Brookings Institution
Congress has appropriated billions of dollars to close the digital divide, but rural areas most likely to encounter challenges to access and adoption. How can smart policy help end the digital divide once and for all?
Broadband Connection in Rural Communities
ChangeLab Solutions
Improving rural broadband is key to enhancing health, education, and economic equity. It helps ensure access to health and emergency services and reduces the digital divide that disproportionately affects BIPOC and low-income families. Explore how increasing capital access and flexible policy strategies can advance rural life.
Using Networks To Build Collaborative & Equitable Food Systems
This brief focuses on local food systems as vehicles for collaboration and racial equity among multiple stakeholders and networks.
TOWARDS BETTER RURAL FUTURES
ChangeLab Solutions
Toward Better Rural Futures aims to foster greater collaboration and alignment across local, regional, and state levels of government, equipping leaders with the tools and knowledge to fundamentally shift power, opportunity, and resources in order to create healthy rural places where everyone can thrive.