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US Economy

Tension as Catalyst: Land Stewardship

Learn how rural and tribal innovators have forged new productive partnerships and about the difference it has made for the economy and environment, as well as rural communities and livelihoods.

Event

05.01.2019
Employment and Jobs

Advancing 2Gen Strategies in Rural America

Learn the how-to’s of designing and supporting effective 2Gen efforts in rural places, featuring practitioner stories from two pathbreaking rural 2Gen efforts – one from Appalachian Western Maryland and another from Downeast Maine.

Event

01.30.2019
US Economy

Firmly Rooted: A Regional Food Economy

Appalachian Ohio leads the way in leveraging rural assets and enterprise to build a regional food system that is core to its stronger local economy. Learn how they have creatively networked local producers to build a food hub and a bounty of locally owned and growing businesses.

Event

09.12.2018
Employment and Jobs

Game Changers: Rural Opportunity Youth

Programs from Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta, and the Tribal West are successfully moving Rural Opportunity Youth into career training, higher education, and employment in multiple sectors. Learn how rural communities are innovating to help young people realize their potential.

Event

02.26.2018
US Economy

Getting Ahead in Rural Jobs

October's America's Rural Opportunity dialogue highlighted a range of rural-grown innovations to help families get into and get ahead in rural jobs.

Event

09.21.2017
US Economy

Rural-Grown, Local-Owned Manufacturing

This panel highlighted how several rural-grown and local-owned businesses are making manufacturing work, a sector employing 3.5 million rural Americans.

Event

08.04.2017
US Economy

Infrastructure Fueling Rural Development

This panel will consider rural infrastructure and how well planned and coordinated infrastructure investments are advancing rural economic development.

Event

05.03.2017
US Economy

Reframing Natural Resource Economies

This third America’s Rural Opportunity panel will focus on a group of innovators who steward the nations’ natural resources and use those resources to create jobs and businesses.

Event

03.24.2017
US Economy

Rural Entrepreneurial Economies

This second America’s Rural Opportunity panel will focus on a group of innovators that drive the American economy – entrepreneurs and the organizations that support them.

Event

02.07.2017
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