Learn more about two methods of community support: mutual aid and community funds at upcoming webinar

Registration is now open for our upcoming webinar: Rural Community Resourcing Strategies, September 9, 12-1:30 p.m. ET.

Rural Community Resourcing Strategies Webinar

The third webinar in our series about claiming rural agency in the face of outside influences, this session will focus on methods of community support. Together with our panelists, we will explore mutual aid and community funds.

How do residents claim agency when conventional capital systems aren’t built for rural places? Explore this question with us during this webinar. You’ll hear about how these tools can be resources for rural communities and leave with a stronger understanding of why, when, and how these strategies might be implemented. Perhaps you’ll start a new conversation in your rural town.

This session will be hosted by Rural Assembly, led by our collaborator Annie Contractor, and featured panelists are Lyndsay Tarus and Taysha DeVaughan of Alliance for Appalachia with Ryanne Pilgeram of The Wilderness Society. Thank you to our friends at Radically Rural for their partnership on this webinar series.

We look forward to learning with and from you this year. Want to hear about future webinars? Sign up for the Rural Assembly newsletter.

Did you miss our last two webinars? Find them on the Rural Assembly YouTube channel, along with playbacks of related conversations from this year’s Rural Assembly Everywhere:

A Wave of Energy: Reflections from Rural Assembly Everywhere 2026

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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