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2. Rural Development Hubs: Strengthening America’s Rural Innovation Infrastructure
- Author:
- Community Strategies Group
- Publication Date:
- 06-2020
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Aspen Institute
- Abstract:
- This report focuses on the role — and aggregates the wisdom — of a specific set of intermediaries that are doing development differently in rural America. We have chosen to call them Rural Development Hubs — or Hubs for short. We focus here on Rural Development Hubs because they are main players advancing an asset-based, wealth-building, approach to rural community and economic development in this country.
- Topic:
- Agriculture, Development, Rural, Economic Development, Community, and Farming
- Political Geography:
- North America and United States of America
3. Equity and Affordability in Rural Communities and Tribal Nations
- Author:
- Energy and Environment Program
- Publication Date:
- 07-2020
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Aspen Institute
- Abstract:
- The annual Aspen-Nicholas Water Forum, a collaborative initiative between the Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Program and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University, serves as a platform for addressing domestic water challenges in the 21st century. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Forum took place across a series of virtual sessions exploring what constitutes good water governance through the lenses of water affordability and equity. While this topic was chosen prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, the pandemic has further revealed and exacerbated health and financial disparities across racial, gender, and geographic lines.
- Topic:
- Inequality, Rural, Public Health, Pandemic, Community, COVID-19, Tribes, and Equity
- Political Geography:
- North America and United States of America
4. Meaningfully Connecting with Communities in Advocacy and Policy Work
- Author:
- Susanna Dilliplane and David Devlin-Foltz
- Publication Date:
- 04-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Aspen Institute
- Abstract:
- Commissioned by Fund for Shared Insight, this landscape scan explores whether and how US funders and nonprofits seek to meaningfully connect with the people and communities that their advocacy and policy work is intended to benefit. It employs an intentionally exploratory lens, without a predetermined definition of what “connecting” would look like in advocacy and policy contexts, nor presumptions about what might be needed to support connections. The research findings are intended to inform Shared Insight’s grantmaking strategy, and to contribute to the broader field’s understanding of what it means — and what it takes — to meaningfully connect with communities that are ultimately intended to benefit from advocacy and policy work. Shared Insight is a funder collaborative seeking to improve philanthropy by elevating the voices of those least heard.
- Topic:
- Advocacy, Community, Philanthropy, and Non-profits
- Political Geography:
- North America and United States of America
5. The Grand Opportunity: Creating Community, Equity and Innovation with Houston Public Libraries
- Author:
- Amy Garmer
- Publication Date:
- 05-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Aspen Institute
- Abstract:
- Thirty library, government, nonprofit, and business leaders convened at the historic Julia Ideson Library Building in Houston in November 2017 to explore opportunities for working more closely and more intentionally with Houston’s public libraries. The Houston Dialogue on Public Libraries highlighted the changing role of libraries in response to educational, economic, social, and technological changes in society and explored strategies for leveraging the resources and expertise of the Houston Public Library system to address critical needs for recovery and rebuilding in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.
- Topic:
- Education, Innovation, Community, and Libraries
- Political Geography:
- North America, Texas, United States of America, and Houston
6. Beyond Connectivity: How California Libraries Can Leverage Bandwidth to Advance Community Goals
- Author:
- John Horrigan
- Publication Date:
- 06-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Aspen Institute
- Abstract:
- Written by John Horrigan, this report unveils a set of opportunities and recommendations for strengthening local innovation and resetting community expectations, using public libraries and their gigabit-plus broadband capacity as a fulcrum. With a focus on California Public libraries, the report suggests how library broadband can be used to address statewide goals for universal pre-kindergarten, youth learning and engagement, and civic participation especially with regards to the 2020 Census and elections.
- Topic:
- Education, Infrastructure, Internet, Community, and Libraries
- Political Geography:
- United States, California, and North America
7. Conscience, Community and Citizenship: Religious Pluralism in an Age of Religious Nationalism
- Author:
- Inclusive America Project
- Publication Date:
- 07-2019
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Aspen Institute
- Abstract:
- On October 9, 2018, the Aspen Institute Inclusive America Project, with generous support from the Democracy Fund and the Templeton Religion Trust, hosted a symposium entitled Conscience, Community and Citizenship to examine the role of religious pluralism in building a stronger democracy. The symposium sought to answer the following questions: What characteristics of engagement should we express through our words and actions? What skill sets are required for cross-cultural and religious literacy so we can engage, respect, and protect the “other”? How do we combine these characteristics and skills to protect and promote both conscience and community in the name of citizenship? What are the points of intersection between the ideals of religious freedom and religious pluralism? This report offers a summary of the day’s conclusions.
- Topic:
- Nationalism, Religion, Democracy, Citizenship, Community, and Pluralism
- Political Geography:
- United States of America and North America