Community Strategies Group

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

This Annotated List of Resources for Measuring Rural Development Progress is for rural practitioners to share resources and ideas to improve outcomes for rural families, communities, and regions.

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. 

Four rural development practitioners share how we can better define rural development success.

Over 50 rural community practitioners gathered to share how they are thinking and acting on rural stewardship, including how they are working to balance their region’s economic development with environmental sustainability.

Community and economic development practitioners and community members gathered at a Thrive Rural Open Field session to share tips, techniques, and resources to help build rural and Native nations’ capacity. During the event, participants shared tips useful for local, regional, and national funders.

Organizational capacity and technical assistance need to be carefully and intentionally strengthened in rural and Native nation communities to grow economies, health, and livelihoods for each and every person in their regions. So, how are rural organizations growing capacity? 

What are some important steps we can take to ensure the long-term viability of our country’s natural resources?

Explore how organizations can build and sustain trusting relationships to best serve immigrant and refugee communities.

An in-depth look at how we can use #2GenImm approaches to help immigrant and refugee families overcome the language barrier.