Aspen CSG partners with Indigenous leaders to center sovereignty, equity, and Indigenous priorities in building a thriving rural future for all. The post Centering Indigenous Leadership in Rural Development appeared first on Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
Aspen CSG Co-Executive Director Chris Estes talks about centering leadership on mutual benefit, collaboration, and creating intentional spaces for trust and shared learning.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
A robust, representative, diverse and powerful network of Native nation and rural leaders, practitioners, and doers consistently engage in advising and influencing narrative, policy design, and action agendas across sectors and levels of government.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
Rural Stakeholder Equity means govts, businesses, and institutions operated by owners outside rural communities establish balanced relationships that produce mutual and fair value for the rural stakeholders.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
Define and measure balanced development success as decreasing economic and racial inequality while building local wealth and resilience.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
The Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group is a connecting hub for equitable rural community and economic development.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
A Rural Development Hub is a place-rooted organization that works within and across a region to build inclusive wealth, increase local capacity, and create opportunities for better livelihoods, health, and wellbeing.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
Lessons and insights on advancing the Rural Development Hub model. The post The Power of Connection: Rural Development Hubs in Action appeared first on Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
At the Aspen Ideas Festival, Justin Archer Burch brought what’s working in the Delta to a national stage, ensuring rural, Southern, and community-rooted solutions are part of the conversation. The post From the Delta to Aspen: Elevating Rural Voices & Solutions appeared first on Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
Co-Executive Director of Aspen CSG, Bonita Robertson-Hardy, shares leadership lessons learned from a career working with and in community, and emphasizes the importance of finding your "why" as a leader. The post Leadership Lessons: Bonita Robertson-Hardy appeared first on Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
A Q&A with Stacy Caldwell, CEO of the Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation, who is reshaping what rural leadership looks like in California’s North Tahoe-Truckee region.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
This resource center brings together all types of rural resources with advocates & residents telling a comprehensive story of what it takes for rural America to thrive.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
This report underscores and articulates how ongoing changes in the structure and business of media and journalism contribute to the...| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
Celebrating 40 years of rural and Indigenous community partnership, Aspen CSG reflects on decades of action, connection, and what’s ahead. The post 40 Years of Aspen CSG: Advancing Rural and Indigenous Prosperity appeared first on Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
Insights and recommendations to foster rural & indigenous well-being with asset based development. The post Four Principles for Fostering Community Well-Being with Asset-Based Development appeared first on Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
Thriving regions are built on urban and rural communities' shared, interconnected, and interdependent success. The post The Myth of the “Rural-Urban Divide” appeared first on Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
By shaping accurate narratives, we can drive fair and just investments and policies that honor the people and places at the heart of rural and Indigenous communities.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
A comprehensive glossary of key terms and concepts frequently used in rural development.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
Each person in the community has the skills, resources, and social supports they need to pursue and live a healthy, safe, and fulfilling life.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
Aspen CSG's current thinking, related resources, and upcoming opportunities to help advance rural narrative change.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
Communities and regions, no matter their starting points, produce and celebrate the small wins and steady progress that fuel hope and persistence.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
Get resources for rural communities including economic development techniques and insights to implement in your work.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
This short case study has insights and tips on how rural development practitioners can move beyond neutrality and still communicate effectively with community members from across the political spectrum.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
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.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
What it will take to make more flexible and responsive funding available to rural development organizations serving low-income and persistent poverty rural regions?| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
Public and private policy, investment, and incentives encourage and stimulate collaborative regional action and the capacity of regional efforts to address shared cross-community economic, social, and health challenges and opportunities.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
Executive Summary for Future Rural Futures: Call to Action. Get quick takeaways and recommendations for more equitable funding models.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
This ROADs culmination event recap highlights the power of rural collaboration, focusing on capacity building, coalition efforts, and innovative partnerships for rural advocacy.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
The Thrive Rural Framework is a tool to take stock, target action, and gauge progress on equitable rural development.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
Rural Development Hubs are the main players advancing an asset-based, wealth-building, approach to rural community and economic development.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
Public, private, and philanthropic financial capital and durable funding streams are reliably available, easily accessible and affordable, and consistently and strategically invested in rural people, places, organizations, and economies.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
Executive Summary for Unlocking Potential: Call to Action. Get quick takeaways and recommendations for action on weaving health and development.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
Insights and recommendations to do rural development and rural health differently—moving collectively toward equitable rural development with projects grounded in place and a people-centered vision of community impact.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
Insights and learnings from rural practitioners and funders on how funders can work to transform their thinking and action to better support their communities.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group
This short case study has insights and tips on how funders are shifting gears to learn communities’ processes and practices, enabling more equitable partnerships and impactful projects that meet community needs.| Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group