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The Environment

Environmental Justice Practices & Resources for Rural Communities

Rural community practitioners and allies gathered at an Open Field session to share how they think and act on rural environmental justice, including ideas on just and equitable energy transitions. This blog curates the themes, ideas, and resources shared by participants.

BY Devin Deaton

Blog Post

06.16.2022
Economic Development

Defining Rural Development Success

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

BY Community Strategies Group

Publication

06.06.2022
US Government

Supporting EDA Reauthorization

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

BY Community Strategies Group

Blog Post

04.12.2022
Economic Development

Systems-Level Building Blocks

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.

BY Community Strategies Group

Publication

03.07.2022
Economic Development

Local-Level Building Blocks

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.

BY Community Strategies Group

Publication

03.07.2022
Economic Development

The Foundational Element

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

BY Community Strategies Group

Publication

03.07.2022
Economic Development

Thrive Rural Framework Overview

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.

BY Community Strategies Group

Publication

03.07.2022
Economic Development

Fostering an Inclusive Recovery: Building Back Better Through EDA’S Regional Build Back Better Programs

Aspen Institute Latinos and Society (AILAS) hosted the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development, Alejandra Y. Castillo and Co-F ...

BY Aspen Latino Business & Entrepreneurship Initiative

Video

02.04.2022
Economic Development

Investing in Rural Infrastructure

On August 16, four speakers explored why new federal funding presents a momentous opportunity to invest in rural physical infrastructure - and how communities can effectively leverage this funding to build thriving rural places.

Event

07.29.2021
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