Rural Narratives

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Moving Mindsets: How to Shape a Strategy

Frameworks

Want to change hearts and minds? Shift policy? Bring about structural change? It starts with knowing what mindsets are—and aren’t—and what it takes to shift them.

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THE DAILY YONDER

The Daily Yonder

The Daily Yonder provides news, commentary, and analysis about and for rural America. It is published by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Center for Rural Strategies.

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MINDSET SHIFTS

FrameWorks

A FrameWorks Strategic Report for those working on and funding mindset shifts.

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RECLAIMING NATIVE TRUTH

Reclaiming Native Truth

Reclaiming Native Truth is a national effort to foster cultural, social and policy change by empowering Native Americans to counter discrimination, invisibility and the dominant narratives that limit Native opportunity, access to justice, health and self-determination.

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AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT

American Journalism Project

Local journalism keeps communities informed and holds the powerful accountable. It is the key to an informed citizenry and provides the tools to safeguard a healthy democracy — but the industry is in crisis.

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The Rural Blog

Institute for Rural Journalism

A digest of events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism from and about rural America, by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, based at the University of Kentucky.

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WHAT’S IN AND WHAT’S OUT IN NATIVE REPRESENTATION

Illuminative

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HOW TO TALK ABOUT RURAL ISSUES

Frameworks Institute

This brief summary highlights FrameWorks Institute’s research on public perceptions of rural issues. See research highlights, recommendations, and examples of framing decisions this research helps to clarify.

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3 LESSONS FROM A STORYTELLING PODCAST

Hattaway Communications

Hattaway Communications interviews Brookings Institute Senior Fellow Tony Pipa on his podcast Reimagine Rural. Tony shares three best practices for challenging negative cultural narratives through storytelling.

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SMALL TALK WITH COMMUNITIES UNLIMITED

Communities Unlimited

Small Talk with Communities Unlimited (CU) is a new podcast for rural communities to help highlight the challenges they face and introduce solutions CU is using to address them.

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NARRATIVE CHANGE

Strengthen ND

Case studies and reports from StrengthenND about narrative change around newcomers to North Dakota

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THE YONDER REPORT

The Daily Yonder

The Yonder Report is a short, fast-paced roundup of rural news, featuring a wide variety of rural voices. Despite the news media’s consolidation into big cities, stories coming from thousands of small communities across the country are no less urgent and relevant to our national conversation.