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What Rural America Can Teach Us about Civil Society

This entry was contributed by John Stephens, on September 5th, 2018 at 8:43 pm and is filed under Capacity Building, Community Partnerships, Outreach Methods, Uncategorized.

When one thinks about “community engagement” or “public participation” the image is often of a neighborhood meeting, or a public hearing. Implicitly, the background setting is a town or city.

I’m glad to highlight analysis by Allen Smart and Betsey Russell about What Rural America Can Teach Us about Civil Society.

Allen is leading a project at Campbell University to identify, align, and energize effective rural philanthropy around the country.  Betsey is a philanthropy writer and researcher, currently developing a series of case studies about successful rural funding approaches.

Smart and Russell focus on dispelling stereotypes of rural America. Continue Reading

This entry was tagged with the following terms: civil society, Independent Sector, rural civic engagement, rural power structure

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Resources: School of Government

  • Public Participation
  • Guide for local government officials - public outreach and participation
  • Citizen Academies
  • International Association for Public Participation

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