Creative Placemaking in Central Appalachia
Central Appalachia has been employing creative placemaking for decades, if not centuries, just not necessarily by that name. We conducted…
Rural Community and Economic Development Tools for Participatory Change
This section of our website is where you’ll find tools and resources for rural community and economic development. These resources are designed by RSP to improve the practice of participatory change and 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 at the bottom of the page to receive a notification about new posts when we send out our newsletter.
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