Collaboration

Seeing American Communities Through a Neighbor’s Eyes: A Call to Funders of Community Change

2025-08-25T10:19:08-04:00

"The Democratic Party approaches rural America as missionaries and not as neighbors." -Attributed to David Axelrod, shared by former U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp (July 1, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC) That quote has stayed with me since attending the launch of the Brookings-American Enterprise Institute Commission on U.S. Rural Prosperity in early July. While the desire to help is genuine and appropriate, the underlying assumption is problematic: that rural Americans lack…

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The Real Deal About Collaboration

2025-08-25T13:42:02-04:00

Over the last several issues of our newsletter, we've explored the importance of understanding and respecting rural cultures-particularly how those insights influence the way we approach evaluations in rural communities. We've also highlighted recurring questions and lessons from place-based change initiatives. Across all community settings, one foundational value consistently emerges beneath both community attributes and evaluation practices: collaboration. Collaboration is essential-not only among community leaders and organizations striving for collective…

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