Center for Rural Strategies
The Center for Rural Strategies is a nonprofit communications organization that seeks to reframe the public discourse that defines rural communities.
By creating accurate and compelling frames through which to view important public policy debate, Rural Strategies builds public support for positive change and provides ways for diverse social- and economic-justice organizations to work together around a common set of actions.
Grants
General Operations
| Amount | $40,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2022-2023 |
| Region | Kentucky |
| Primary Approach | Just Transition in Eastern Kentucky |
Emergency Funding
| Amount | $10,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2022 |
| Region | Kentucky |
| Primary Approach | Just Transition in Eastern Kentucky |
General Operations
| Amount | $17,600 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2021 |
| Region | Kentucky |
| Primary Approach | Just Transition in Eastern Kentucky |
The Daily Yonder
This grant supports the "Daily Yonder" publication.
| Amount | $5,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2020 |
| Region | Kentucky |
| Primary Approach | Just Transition in Eastern Kentucky |
Diversify Appalachia Communications Initiative
This project works to build a multi-layered and diffused communications capacity that supports efforts to diversify the coalfields economy and move toward a more sustainable, green, and just post-coal economy.
| Amount | $80,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2019-2020 |
| Region | Kentucky |
| Primary Approach | Just Transition in Eastern Kentucky |
Diversify Appalachia Communications Initiative
The project will create an environment in which diverse just-transition organizations can individually and collectively advance their goals of building stronger local economies and draw the region away from its reliance on extractive industry.
| Amount | $80,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2017-2018 |
| Region | Kentucky |
| Primary Approach | Just Transition in Eastern Kentucky |
Diversify Appalachia Communications Initiative
The Center for Rural Strategies seeks to take advantage of a strategic moment to build a communications infrastructure that supports Eastern Kentucky efforts to diversify the coalfields' economy and move toward a more sustainable, green, and just post-coal economy
| Amount | $40,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2016 |
| Region | Kentucky |
| Primary Approach | Just Transition in Eastern Kentucky |
EDGE Funders Alliance Just Giving conference
Travel to the EDGE Funders Alliance Just Giving Conference
| Amount | $1,135 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2016 |
| Region | Kentucky |
| Primary Approach | Travel |
Diversify Appalachia Communications Initiative
Create a campaign for a just economic transition in East Kentucky
| Amount | $40,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2015 |
| Region | Kentucky |
| Primary Approach | Just Transition in Eastern Kentucky |