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Community Sustainability (12)
For a rural community to survive, we must identify the strengths that already exist in a community, embrace the diverse elements within each community, and learn how to collaborate together for a sustainable future.

Community Technology Centers (6)
Community Technology Centers provide access and skill training on computers and related technologies to help us bridge the Digital Divide.

Current Issues Research (1)
Institutes and research focused on current issues of rural life, including rural poverty, rural health, government assistance, challenges of rural life and many more topics.

Explore Opportunities (6)
In thinking of innovative strategies for rural sustainability, we need to consider current assets and how they could be used differently to provide economic opportunities for rural residents. Here's a sampling. Real Stories Images (17)
Rural life is rich in many ways. These links bring you to a celebration of living in rural places as told in images and stories by those who love them. Please add a directory link to your website if you too celebrate our disappearing rural way of life.

Small Town Life (6)
Small town life is alive and well in rural North America. Here are the best links that showcase the challenges and opportunities of 21st Century small town life.

Womens Issues (5)
Information for and about rural women and the important role they have for the future of rural areas.

Rural Life Links

NativeWeb - NativeWeb is an international, nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to using telecommunications including computer technology and the Internet to disseminate information from and about indigenous nations, peoples, and organizations around the world.
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Office of Rural Health Policy - The Office of Rural Health Policy promotes better health care service in rural America. Congress has charged the Office with informing and advising the Department of Health and Human Services on matters affecting rural hospitals, and health care, co-ordinating activities within the department that relate to rural health care, and maintaining a national information clearinghouse.
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OPERATING ROOM OF THE FUTURE: your tool for tomorrow's OR - Check out the Operating Room of the Future!
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Rural Depopulation Study Options - Learn about the Barcelona Field Studies Center's approach to case study research on rural depopulation.
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Rural Housing and Economic Development - HUD - The Rural Housing and Economic Development Program provides for $27 million in grants for capacity building and support, including seed money, for housing and economic development in rural areas. The program will enhance the capacity of organizations operating in rural areas to carry out housing and economic development activities and to fund innovative programs and provide seed support in these areas.
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Rural Information Center - The Rural Information Center (RIC) provides information and referral services to local, state, and federal government officials; community organizations; health professionals and organizations; rural electric and telephone cooperatives; libraries; businesses; and, rural citizens working to maintain the vitality of America's rural areas.
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Rural Institute on Disabilities - The Montana University Affiliated Rural Institute on Disabilities is part of the national network of programs funded by the Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD) committed to assisting in the provision of interdisciplinary training, research, service demonstration programs, leverage of funds, and information dissemination which increases and supports the independence, productivity, and inclusion into the community of persons with developmental disabilities.
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Rural Planning: Orton Family Foundation - The Orton Family Foundation, established in 1995 by Lyman Orton and Noel Fritzinger, is a nonprofit, private operating foundation working with rural communities as they cope with rapid economic, social and environmental change.
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Rural Renaissance Books : Land, Hard Work and the Good Life - A collection of books from Chelsea Green, a publisher specializing in Green and sustainable living.
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RURALFACTS - In January of 1997, the Research and Training Center on Rural Rehabilitation Services (RTC: Rural) asked Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) agencies to prioritize the issues they face when providing rural services. The purpose of our request was to make sure that RTC: Rural projects continued to address issues with the highest priority. We received 59 responses from 40 agencies in 32 states.
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