America’s Rural Opportunity

America’s Rural Opportunity is a series of panel conversations that invites policymakers, economic and community development practitioners, and business and philanthropic leaders to engage in real dialogue around advancing a rural opportunity agenda. These events are a collaboration between the Rural Development Innovation Group and the Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group.

Support for the America’s Rural Opportunity series has been generously provided by: the Annie E. Casey Foundation, Incourage Community Foundation, LOR Foundation, Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, Northwest Area Foundation, U.S. Endowment for Forestry & Communities, Northern Forest Center, and Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group (CSG).

The series will help:

  • Uncover the complex reality and diversity of America’s rural places, economies, businesses, development intermediaries – and people.
  • Raise understanding about what works in Rural America by exploring enterprising economic development approaches that tap a range of opportunities to build wider and more enduring prosperity – and strengthen productive rural/urban connections.
  • Identify what the private, public and philanthropic sectors can do differently to improve rural prospects.

Video from previous sessions:

US Economy
Local Innovation Strengthening Rural Economies
February 6, 2017 •

US Economy
Supporting Entrepreneurial Economies
February 7, 2017 •

US Economy
Reframing Natural Resource Economies
March 24, 2017 •

US Economy
Infrastructure Fueling Rural Economic Development
May 3, 2017 •

US Economy
Rural-Grown, Local-Owned Manufacturing
August 4, 2017 •

US Economy
Getting Ahead in Rural Jobs
September 21, 2017 •

Employment and Jobs
Game Changers: Linking Rural Opportunity Youth to Better Economic Futures
February 26, 2018 •

US Economy
Firmly Rooted: Building Enterprise and Ownership in a Regional Food Economy
September 12, 2018 •

Employment and Jobs
All Together Now: Advancing 2Gen Strategies in Rural America
January 30, 2019 •

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