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Jenna Fehr

Grants for Rural Development in Decline | Daily Yonder | Keep It Rural - 1 views

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shared by Jenna Fehr on 24 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • The Ford Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation stand out as the largest rural development grantmakers for the five-year period 2004-08. And as the listing (at right) shows, there are other noteworthy funders.
  • (domestic, not international) did not fare well in foundation grant portfolios 2004-08.  During that span annual foundation grants for rural development declined from $92.7 million in 2004 to $89.5 million in 2008.
  • specifically chose the years prior to the recession
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  • chose to encourage rural areas to look to their local wealth to develop new sources of philanthropy, typically community foundations
  • strategy is slow slow slow and poses other problems
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  • Perhaps the issue is a lack of rural advocacy. Foundations have often complained that they suspect rural non-profits lack capacity.
Jenna Fehr

http://www.ddaa-ldd.org/Default.aspx - 0 views

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shared by Jenna Fehr on 27 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Jenna Fehr on 27 Apr 11
     
    ARC Local Development Districts: good info on how they're organized and a great interactive map. Might be helpful for our ARC-related work
Andrew Barnes

Rural/Urban Broadband Study Released | Daily Yonder | Keep It Rural - 0 views

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broadband rural development access technology rural

shared by Andrew Barnes on 23 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Andrew Barnes on 23 Feb 11
     
    We were just talking about this
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