This section of our website is where you’ll find community development resources designed by RSP to improve the practice of participatory rural development by sharing what we’ve learned from our work across Central Appalachia. Every month, we post resources including those that help ground you in the concepts that guide our work, planning tools, and occasional case studies of what’s worked and lessons we’ve learned along the way. These resources are intended for people doing similar participatory community, organizational, or network development to bring about system change, particularly in rural communities. Sign up below to receive notification when we post a new resource.
Throughout Appalachia, entrepreneurs are forging a new economic model — one based on local investment and local ownership — and their impact is already being felt in some of the Region’s evolving economic sectors, including energy, manufacturing, health care, and local food production. Prompted in part by Appalachia’s need for economic diversification, the Appalachian Regional […]
In the fall of 2015, Rural Support Partners conducted an evaluation to understand and assess the value of our work across the region from the perspective of its partners. Read more to find out what we learned.