rural

Rural communities must start planning for disaster before a community is forced to grapple with response and recovery. 

CSG recently helped author and signed on to a letter with other RRAN members in support of EDA reauthorization.

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.

The Thrive Rural Framework helps you take stock, target action, and gauge progress on rural prosperity. We invite everyone involved in rural development to use it to spark new ways of thinking and acting to move communities, regions, and systems toward equitable rural prosperity.

This Thrive Rural Field Perspective offers a call to action to restructure and reorient public, private and philanthropic capital in ways that increase their impact across rural America.

When tribes center sovereignty, Indigenous institutions and culture in their development processes they increase the probability of reaching their development goals and can build community wealth that is more in line with tribal values and lifeways.

This first in the Thrive Rural Field Perspective Series highlights how accelerating connections between health and development can propel rural prosperity.  

Tailoring economic and community development efforts to the assets, actors and goals of specific communities and regions is critically important.