White House Rural Playbook
A guide providing communities with information on applying for a portion of the $1.2 trillion in funding now available through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
A collection of resources curated for organizations interested in creating cross-sector health partnerships and increasing community investment in rural areas and small towns to create the conditions that support improved community health
A Playbook for New Rural Healthcare Partnership Models of Investments is an action-oriented guide designed for healthcare organizations who want to pursue partnerships with local community and economic development and other sectors in rural areas and small towns to create the community conditions that support improved community health. After interviewing dozens of experts we share case studies highlighting core strategies used by rural healthcare entities as examples for future multi-sector partnerships to follow.
This primer makes the case for multi-sector approaches that increase community-centered investments to support opportunities for all individuals to live long, healthy lives, regardless of their income, education, race or ethnic background. Acknowledging the unique opportunities and challenges to working in rural areas and small cities, we recognize the importance of incorporating resources that reflect these realities creating freedom for locally generated solutions to accelerate through innovative partnerships. The primer provides tools such as a jargon buster, partner finder, and more.
This live conversation, which aired on September 13, 2022, explored A Playbook for New Rural Healthcare Partnership Models of Investment, highlighting core strategies used by healthcare entities in rural areas leveraging multisector partnerships for health and well-being as examples for others to follow.
Our Crosswalk essay, co-published with Shelterforce Magazine, shares examples from Kansas, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Virginia, where rural hospitals are pioneering creative partnerships with community development that pave the way for further investments in their communities.
Small towns, however, face unique hurdles in economic development that require a different blueprint for community development than in urban areas. This Crosswalk essay explores several efforts to unlock investments in rural communities in order to improve overall health and well-being in rural America.
In this brief 20 minute Video Snapshot, Build Healthy Places Network’s Ruth Thomas Squance speaks with Carrie Henning-Smith, assistant professor at University of Minnesota School of Public Health and Deputy Director of the University of Minnesota Rural Health Research Center, whose work centers on health equity, with a focus on rural residents, older adults, and historically marginalized populations.
The two discuss the important contributions philanthropy brings to community development and health partnerships in rural areas. Allen Smart also provides examples of philanthropy’s key role in accelerating investments aimed at improving health and well-being in rural communities and lays out ways community developers can connect with the philanthropic sector.
This section features a collection of resources from external sites with a rural and small-town focus relevant to organizations creating cross-sector health partnerships and increasing community investment.
A guide providing communities with information on applying for a portion of the $1.2 trillion in funding now available through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Outlines a framework for how to approach rural development successfully and showcasing stories of progress in different communities—as well as highlighting recommendations for action by policymakers, practitioners, funders and researchers—the editors and authors hope to advance this important goal.
An outline of opportunities to reframe rural economic development through an asset-based lens from the Urban Institute
Focuses on opportunities to build on the unique strengths of rural places throughout the United States to uplift local solutions for economic prosperity and resilience. Developed by the Rural Development Innovation Group of the Aspen Institute.