Rural Community Development Spotlight
This page hosts all the resources and materials from our Spotlight on Rural Community Development.
"How To Do It" Resources
- Rural Families Get A Prescription for Financial Health Financial Opportunity Center helps rural Pennsylvania families build wealth
- Self-Help Housing Marks 50 Years and 50,000 Homes Learn how self-help housing provides affordable homeownership to rural families.
- Creative Placemaking for Every Community Development centered on local heritage and culture resonates in rural communities.
- Succession Planning for CDCs - Archived webinar See what webinar participants learned about smart succession planning for CDCs in both rural and urban contexts.
- Rural Economic Development - Archived webinar Rural LISC and CDC partners discussed economic development and job creation in Rural America.
- The Rural Data Portal Housing Assistance Council's Rural Data Portal provides national, state and county-level data on the demographic, economic and housing characteristics of U.S. communities.
- "Defying the Odds: Sustainability in Small and Rural Places" This briefing paper provides short case studies and lessons from small communities working to protect the environment in the face of many challenges.
- "Comprehensive Community Development in Rural Settings" Developing and implementing a comprehensive comunity development program in a small town or rural setting.
- "In The News" Stories
- Rural Community Developers Gather to Celebrate – and Build On – Their Successes Rural LISC’s 20th Anniversary seminar provided an opportunity to contemplate the road ahead for rural America
- White House Acts On Rural Child Poverty Faced with rising child poverty in rural areas, the White House Rural Council rolls out a new set of initiatives.
- Helping Hands For a Community In Crisis Rural LISC helps a CDC partner offer relief to drought-stricken San Joaquin Valley residents.
- Federal Disaster Policy: Toward a More Resilient Future HUD's "Evidence Matters" examines federal disaster policy and models for building community resilience in urban and rural settings.
- Transforming Rural Communities Into Healthy Communities From clinics to cooking classes, rural CDCs find ways to bring healthier living to their communities.
- Community Development Through a Rural Lens In Rural America, the community may look a little different, but the goals of community development are the same.