The Rural People, Rural Policy project seeks the following outcomes:
A common vision and vocabulary of challenges, opportunities, and solutions that frame a consistent, more productive national dialogue on rural America.
A nationwide network of rural advocates and organizations that collectively:
Advances local, state, and federal policy that produces healthy, sustainable rural communities with widely shared economic prosperity.
Shares a platform that helps coordinate research, learning, tool and resource development, expertise, and communication.
Includes people and communities historically excluded from the policy formation and decision-making process.
Becomes a knowledgeable, creative, effective, and powerful voice in rural policymaking.
Five rural policy networks (four regional and one at-large)
Rural policy results that integrate the importance of people and place in an effective, flexibly applied framework.
A new perception and understanding by all Americans that rural communities are resilient, diverse, and innovative, and that a vital rural America is essential to the nation’s well-being.
