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The Environment

Rural Disaster Preparedness: Partnering for Resilience & Resources

Event recap blog with resources and big-picture insights on rural disaster preparedness.

BY Community Strategies Group

Blog Post

11.06.2023
Economic Development

WealthWorks: A Powerful Tool for Thriving Rural Places

WealthWorks is an approach to doing economic development differently that inspired and continues to inform the Thrive Rural Framework. Learn more about the WealthWorks approach.

BY Community Strategies Group

Blog Post

09.11.2023
Colleges and Universities

Connecting Minority-Serving Institutions and Rural Research

This research brief explores strategies for MSIs’ to produce research needed to develop and implement solutions aligned with rural needs.

BY Olivia Little, & 3 more

Publication

08.01.2023
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Economic Development

Pathways to Health Equity: Rural Wellbeing and Regional Assets

How the health equity and economic development fields intersect and can collaborate to bring prosperity to rural communities.

BY Community Strategies Group

Blog Post

06.13.2023
Colleges and Universities

Community-Based Participatory Research at Rural MSIs

This research brief explores how rural MSIs and approaches to community-based participatory research can be used to better understand MSIs’ nature and practices.

BY Marybeth Gasman, Alice Ginsberg, and Levon T. Esters

Publication

05.31.2023
Food Access

Using Networks To Build Collaborative And Equitable Food Systems

This brief focuses on local food systems as vehicles for collaboration and racial equity among multiple stakeholders and networks.

BY Marcus A. Coleman, & 2 more

Publication

05.17.2023
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Community Development

Ensuring Rural Communities Welcome Everyone

Resources and best practices to ensure that each and every person is welcomed to the community, feels connected, and is able to exercise and influence power in community decision-making.

BY Community Strategies Group

Blog Post

12.13.2022
Climate Change

Through Natural Disaster to Prosperity

Need actionable steps in your equitable disaster preparedness or recovery work? This report highlights best practices from the field.

BY Community Strategies Group

Publication

10.25.2022
Economic Development

Improving Rural Capital and Credit Access

Access to affordable capital and credit is an integral part of growing rural prosperity – what are some of the major capital and credit trends right now for rural practitioners?

BY Community Strategies Group

Blog Post

08.24.2022
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