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Tools
- Delta States Rural Development Network Grant Program
Designed to encourage the development of new and innovative health care delivery systems in rural communities in the Delta states that lack essential health care services.
Sponsoring organization: Office of Rural Health Policy
- Missouri AgrAbility Project
Assists people with disabilities employed in agriculture. Provides training, site visits, on-farm assessments, technical assistance, and other information directly to the farmer, ranchers, or farmworker with a disease, disability, or disorder.
Sponsoring organization: Services for Independent Living
- Mississippi AgrAbility Project
The Mississippi AgrAbility Project partners are the Mississippi State University Extension Service, the T.K. Martin Center for Technology and Disability, Methodist Rehabilitation Center, the Mississippi Department of Rehabilitation Services and the Alcorn State University Extension Program.
Sponsoring organization: Mississippi State University Extension Service
- Tennessee AgrAbility Project
Is a cooperative effort of the University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service and Easter Seals in Tennessee. Is joined together to create a project to benefit Tennessee's farmers, farm workers and their family members who have disabilities.
- Southern Region Information Toolkit
Provides access to a variety of economic, demographic, and social indicators that citizens, local leaders, and organizations could find valuable as they work to better understand and respond to important shifts taking place in their area.
Sponsoring organization: Southern Rural Development Center
- Southern Region Information Toolkit
Provides a wide variety of economic, demographic and social indicators that can be used by organizations and agencies at the local, state and regional levels.
Sponsoring organization: Southern Rural Development Center
- EnterpriseSouth.biz
Is designed to encourage, support and document the efforts of the Southern states in building an enterprise economy and workforce.
Sponsoring organization: Southern Growth Policies Board
Success Stories
- Better Health for the Delta
The Southeast Louisiana AHEC grantee for the Louisiana Mississippi Delta initiative combined our activities during Phase I and Phase II with the Robert Wood Johnson RWJ) Southern Rural Access Grant Program (SRAG) rural loan fund component and created "Better Health For the Delta".
- Delta Community Partners in Care
Delta Community Partners in Care (DCPIC) is a coalition of partners serving a rural area in the Mississippi Delta region of northwest Mississippi. Its target population is the uninsured or underinsured who have a diagnosis of diabetes, hypertension, or both.
Funding
- Alabama Power Foundation Grants
Improves the quality of life of Alabamians and strengthens the communities in which they live
Geographic Coverage: Alabama only
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
- AmeriCorp Indian Tribes Planning Grants
Grants directly to Tribes and Tribal organizations to assist them in developing an AmeriCorps program.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Jan 26, 2010
Sponsor: Corporation for National and Community Service: For Faith-Based and Other Community Organizations
- Jenny's Heroes Community Grant Program
Grants to individuals who submit the best ideas for tangible, lasting community projects.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
- Rural Passenger Transportation Technical Assistance Program - Long Term Technical Assistance
Technical Assistance program to provide transit planning assistance for facility and service development and expansion.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Nov 23, 2009
Sponsor: Community Transportation Association of America
- Rural Passenger Transportation Technical Assistance Program - Short-term Technical Assistance
The focus of the program is economic development: helping small and emerging businesses and stimulating economic development through new and improved public transportation.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Community Transportation Association of America
- Tribal Transit Technical Assistance Program - Short Term Technical Assistance
Assistance for tribal communities to enhance economic growth and development by improving transportation services.
Geographic Coverage: Nationwide
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Sponsor: Community Transportation Association of America
- Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
Provides resources to build and sustain strong communities for all Arkansans
Geographic Coverage: Arkansas
Application Deadline:
Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Publications
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Accounting for Impact: Economic Development Spending in Kentucky
State program efforts face growing economic challenges, including the decline of traditional industries like tobacco and coal; the rising interstate competition for jobs; the new realities of global economic restructuring; and the limits brought on by a state budget crisis.
Author(s): Jason Bailey, Justin Maxson
Sponsoring organization: Mountain Association for Community Economic Development
Date: 09 / 2005
Format: PDF
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Beyond the Interstate: The Crisis in Rural Alabama
Discusses the problems facing rural Alabama, as well as possible solutions for rural leadership, capacity building and more.
Author(s): Larry Lee, Joe A. Sumners, Auburn University Economic Development Institute
Date: 01 / 2003
Format: PDF
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Blueprint for the Rural South
Describes the goals to strengthen the capacity of the region’s 29 land-grant institutions to address critical contemporary rural development issues impacting the well-being of people and communities in the rural South.
Author(s): Lionel J. Beaulieu
Sponsoring organization: Southern Rural Development Center
Date: 07 / 2007
Format: PDF
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CDBG Revitalizes Towns and Small Cities in Kentucky
Discusses how CDBG has been an integral part of creating sustainable change in the small rural communities throughout Kentucky.
Author(s): Sara Morgan
Sponsoring organization: Housing Assistance Council
Journal citation: Rural Voices Volume: 11 Issue: 01 Pages: 8-9
Date: 2006
Format: PDF
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Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Reflection: Looking Back While Moving Forward
Concentrates on the status of the region a year after Katrina and Rita hammered the Mid South Gulf States. The issue focuses on Foundation for the Mid South's views of the recovery effort, the insights of leaders from the region, and keeping the disasters in the public's attention.
Sponsoring organization: Foundation for the Mid-South
Date: 08 / 2006
Format: PDF
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A Look at the Mid South Delta Region: A Glimpse of Its Assets, Socioeconomic Complexion, and Emerging Opportunities
Offers a brief overview of the potential that exists to improve the social and economic conditions in the Mid South Delta Region.
Author(s): Bo Beaulieu, Marcus Littles
Sponsoring organization: Southern Rural Development Center
Date: 03 / 2009
Format: PDF
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Measures and Methods: Four Tenets for Rural Economic Development in the New Economy
Presents four methods and measures for promoting effective economic development. Strategies include innovation, capital investments, environmental development, and generating networks of personal contacts. Describes examples from North Dakota, North Carolina, Nebraska, Virginia, and Arkansas.
Author(s): Anita Brown-Graham, William Lambe
Sponsoring organization: Carsey Institute
Date: 11 / 2008
Format: PDF
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Southern Rural Development Center: 2008 Annual Report: From Blueprint to Action
Discusses that the Southern Rural Development Center is one of four regional centers coordinating rural development research and extension education programs.
Sponsoring organization: Southern Rural Development Center
Date: 01 / 2009
Format: PDF
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Trends in National and Regional Economic Distress: 1960-2000
Assesses national and regional socioeconomic conditions directly prior to agencies such as ARC, and then examines how various regions in the U.S. have fared since that time.
Author(s): Lawrence E. Wood
Sponsoring organization: Appalachian Regional Commission
Date: 04 / 2005
Format: HTML
Organizations
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Community Resource Group
Works in rural areas to expand the opportunities for families to build assets, improve their lives, and strengthen their communities.
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