We share the sense of urgency for problem-solving that we’re hearing in our statewide outreach. By working together, we can build impactful solutions across rural communities.
Key opportunity areas
- Agriculture: Scale regenerative agriculture as an alternative to industrial food production.
- Connected Community Schools: Provide rural schools with human capital, technological expertise and resources that will allow them to deliver high-quality education in remote locations.
- Transit and Housing: Address the rural public transportation/affordable housing nexus that discourages rural alternatives to urban housing crises.
- Workplace Practices: Take advantage of new workplace practices that allow for remote and co-working spaces, wrapping around needed services and amenities.
- Communication Technologies: Harness new communication technologies to de-urbanize high-tech employment opportunities.
- Healthcare: Design the next generation of telehealth/remote health delivery.
- Green Rural Energy: Foster rural infrastructure and technology innovations to promote rural green energy production, allowing new forms of energy to support rural economies.
- Resilient Ecosystems: Mitigate and restore rural environments to promote regional resiliency in lake and forest ecosystems.
- Policy and Governance: Support the development of innovative policy tools and governance strategies that optimize broad participation and ownership of rural community solution.