Our work is not possible without the help and hard work of the following partners. Their expertise and on-the-ground knowledge spans a wide variety of important rural subject areas, from youth engagement to rural and regional policy to disability issues to community organizing and beyond.

Contributors

We are grateful to our contributing partners for providing written contributions to the foundations papers series (linkto: “Our Work” page) as well as in-kind and financial support.

• Cornell University’s Community and Regional Development Institute (CaRDI) 
• Ford Foundation’s Wealth Creation in Rural Communities initiative 
• Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) 
• RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship 
• RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis at the University of Iowa 
• University of Missouri’s Harry S Truman School of Public Affairs 
• University of Montana’s Research & Training Center on Disability in Rural Communities at the Rural Institute 

Other Collaborators and Important Links

• Enterprise Cascadia 
• Greater Kansas City Food Policy Coalition 
• Iowa State University’s Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture 
• KBIA (mid-Missouri public radio)  and Harvest Public Media 
• The Northern Forest Center 
• Ogallala Commons