What’s Your
Rural Strategy?
Here's ours:
Improving conditions in the countryside through creative use of media, communications, and coalition-building.
Our Mission
At the Center for Rural Strategies, we strive to create better opportunities for small towns and rural communities by building coalitions, developing partnerships, leading public information campaigns, and strengthening connections between rural and urban places.
The Daily Yonder
Our team of dedicated journalists tell stories about and for rural America, with commentary, news and analysis, and cultural storytelling. Learn more.
The Rural Assembly
The Rural Assembly is a vibrant movement of people and organizations advocating for a more inclusive nation. Our focus is on amplifying diverse rural voices across a range of platforms, locally and nationally, through media, policy, relationship-building, and convenings. Learn more.
Rural Remix
Subscribe to the Rural Remix podcast, available wherever you get your podcasts. Your source for a deeper, richer story about life in rural places, each episode of Rural Remix spotlights unexpected rural stories and pushes back on stereotypes and misconceptions surrounding rural communities. Learn more.
Contact Us
Whether you’re a media professional looking for rural experts, a partner organization looking to collaborate, or a rural professional interested in working with us, we’re happy to connect. Learn more and get in touch.
Our Team
Headquartered in Whitesburg, Kentucky, Center for Rural Strategies staff work across rural America, in communities from North Carolina to Oregon. Meet our team.