Community Development

The Midwest Rural Assembly, a regional network of rural advocates and leaders, met August 16-17 for two days of discussing rural issue

The Department of Agriculture has announced it will hold a "rural summit" on June 3, 2010, in Hillsboro, Missouri.

A new report from the White House Council of Economic Advisors examines the rural economy and lays out steps designed to "ensure the prosperity and vitality of rural America." The

Council of Economic Advisers, "Strenghtening the Rural Economy"

I would really like to see there be a renaissance in farming so that all sorts of folks from all sorts of backgrounds could participate in that.
Nella Parks

Jonathan Beutler from Minneapolis, MN just shared a book entitled Youth Renewing the Countryside a program that encourages young people to become more invested and proud of their rural communities

Our media team had a chance to sit down with La Cienega, NM resident John Paul Gonzales. He described some of the issues his small western town is facing.

Rural conservation and community development leaders from Western states are in Washington, D.C., April 17-22, 2010, to discuss federal policy.

Members of the Rural Voices for Conservation (RVCC) are in Washington, D.C., to share their perspectives and inform leaders about the ecological and economic challenges facing rural communities in

McRoberts, KY is a small town with a population under 1,000.  We still live in hollows or more regionally correct, hollers.  The tiny K-5 grade school only host around 40 to 60 students.&

Rural leaders from across the Midwest are meeting in South Sioux City, Nebraska, on Monday-Tuesday, August 16-17, 2010, to discuss "cultivating a stronger rural America."