community development

Data has the potential to be useful to the community it pertains to, but it’s rarely made available to those who might benefit from it most.

We delivered on our promise to design a high-impact proof-of-concept for accelerating digital equity on a global scale.

New opportunities with value to rural and Native nation communities are being generated across fields, from public health to environmental justice and beyond. Check out a few ideas and opportunities to help spur equitable rural prosperity in your community.

Takeaways from the Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions fall convening valuable for equitable rural development

This Executive Summary of Measure Up: A Call to Action highlights six principles for measuring rural development progress.

This Call to Action highlights six principles for measuring rural development progress to encourage funders and investors to design programs that consider lower-capacity communities’ realities, needs, and goals. 

This piece of the Thrive Rural Framework, the Systems-Level Building Blocks, includes driving forces and conditions that are in larger systems outside the direct control of individual rural communities or regions.

This piece of the Thrive Rural Framework, the Local-Level Building Blocks, includes conditions on the ground in rural places and regions that individual rural communities or regions can act on by themselves.

The Foundational Element of the Thrive Rural Framework requires identifying and dismantling historical and ongoing discriminatory practices that disadvantage rural people and places.