Asset-Based Strategies for Rural Development - Insights from Chris Estes

Explore asset-based strategies for rural development in this keynote presentation by Chris Estes, Co-Executive Director of Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group, at Radically Rural. Discover how every rural community possesses unique financial, natural, and cultural assets that can be leveraged for equitable prosperity. Learn about the Thrive Rural Framework, which combines community innovations and tested approaches to achieve thriving, healthy communities while focusing on dismantling structural discrimination based on race, place, and class. Gain insights into Aspen CSG's work in building sustainable, equitable development by amplifying practitioner voices, facilitating peer learning, and bringing systemic change to philanthropic and public funding efforts in underinvested rural communities and regions.