The National Rural Assembly’s Rural Broadband and Policy Group held a webinar for rural stakeholders in cooperation with the Federal Communications Commission to explain how to participate in the FCC’s new experiment, the Rural Broadband Trials – a program that will fund projects to bring broadband to rural areas.
Speakers:
Jonathan Chambers, Chief, FCC Office of Strategic Planning & Policy Analysis
Edyael Casaperalta, Rural Broadband Policy Group Coordinator, facilitator
Registration is now open for our upcoming webinar: Rural Community Resourcing Strategies on September 9th
Madeline Matson and Taneum Fotheringill traveled to Granite Falls, Minn., to host Rural Assembly Everywhere live from The YES! House, in partnership with the Department of Public Transformation (DoPT). The conversation below is a reflection on their experience hosting live, participating in an open mic night, and celebrating the hundreds of people who joined together to uplift our rural communities across the country during Rural Assembly Everywhere 2026.
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