Webinar: Branding the rural networks/Rural Assembly Initiative

Dee Davis, president of the Center for Rural Strategies, and Amy Sterndale, communications director for the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey Institute, talk about building a unifying branding strategy for rural networks and groups.

Download the PowerPoint presentations (below the video) and follow along with the video of the conference.

Here are links to the Daily Yonder stories mentioned by Dee: Finding Fairness for Rural Schools & Public Schools Buck the ‘Crisis’ and Innovate.

Dee also mentioned a 2004 report by the Frameworks Institute. Download it here.

Drawing Resilience: Jaiden Dokken

Jaiden Dokken is a writer, printmaker, ceramicist, cidermaker, and self-described highly persistent pen pal. They are Clallam County’s first Poet Laureate and will spend the next two years bringing poetry to the northwesternmost corner of Washington State. Dokken’s work has been published in Fiction International, Algorithm, Muses and Vices, SpeakEasy, Superfroot Magazine, and Pile Press. They are an editor and reader for Perennial Press.

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How to share your story at Everywhere

Save the date for Rural Assembly Everywhere, a multimedia production designed by and for rural leaders and their allies, on June 28th!

A free virtual event, Everywhere: Toward Safer, More Connected Communities will explore the ways rural people are pushing back against harmful policies and narratives and the steps they are taking to create safer, more connected communities.

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Coming soon: Rural Assembly Everywhere Summer 2023

Save the date for Rural Assembly Everywhere, a multimedia production designed by and for rural leaders and their allies, on June 28th!

A free virtual event, Everywhere: Toward Safer, More Connected Communities will explore the ways rural people are pushing back against harmful policies and narratives and the steps they are taking to create safer, more connected communities.

Read More »