Philanthropy & Social Enterprise

Turn on the radio or TV. Open a newspaper or website. COVID-19 is front and center. Photos from New York, Detroit, Seattle, New Orleans – and nations abroad – evidence a world of change in a changed world. Daily counts of cases and deaths mount, by country, by state, by county. What’s harder to grasp is the health and economic effects of our shared crisis on rural regions and tribal nations across the United States. This, despite the fact that last weekend the number of reported COVID-19 cases increased at a faster rate in rural counties than in urban areas, extending a recent and likely growing trend.