Center for Rural Strategies
Project Title
For support of its communications work on reducing polarization in rural communities
Date
Mar. 06, 2025
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 2001, the Center for Rural Strategies is a nonpartisan communications organization that works to improve rural communities by building strategic coalitions and distributing quality information with a rural perspective. The center provides policymakers, journalists, and advocates with diverse, multi-layered stories rooted in rural America. The center publishes information about rural issues, works with journalists to assist them in the coverage of rural topics, and works with a wide range of partners to build a stronger voice on behalf of rural communities. With Corporation support, the center will carry out an integrated communications and engagement initiative to help expand democratic discourse in a way that aligns with the needs of rural America and builds bridges between diverse communities.
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For general support
Date
Mar. 10, 2022
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 2001, the Center for Rural Strategies is a nonpartisan organization that works to improve rural communities by building strategic coalitions and distributing quality information with a rural perspective. The center provides policymakers, journalists, and policy advocates access to diverse, multi-layered stories rooted in rural America, and creates an environment in which rural Americans’ economic and social concerns are highlighted to policymakers and the public. With Corporation support, the center will continue to build civic-minded media infrastructure that can bridge partisan divides and educate rural voters on the importance of voting through high-quality media content, effective dissemination, and audience development.
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For support of a project to promote immigration and voting rights issues in rural media
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
24 months
Description
Many rural Americans do not have a balanced media ecosystem from which they can access accurate information about how issues like immigration affect their daily life. Local news companies are shuttering across the country, and 57 percent of adults in rural communities say that even their limited local news options are mostly concerned with areas other than their own. Since 2001, the Center for Rural Strategies has been building bridges between urban and rural communities through strategic communications. The center works to give policymakers, journalists, and advocates access to stories from diverse, multi-layered rural America, as well as create for rural Americans a media environment in which their economic and social concerns are addressed respectfully. With Corporation support, the Center for Rural Strategies will develop a platform to engage rural Americans on a range of issues, including immigration policy and the importance of voting through high-quality media content, effective dissemination, and audience development.
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For support of a project on immigration and rural voting rights
Date
Mar. 08, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
For rural counties that grew in population and economic vitality in recent years, foreign-born residents accounted for 75 percent of that growth. Since 2001, the Center for Rural Strategies has been building bridges between urban and rural communities. The center works to give policymakers, journalists, and advocates access to the diverse, complex stories in rural America, while also creating for rural Americans a balanced information environment that fairly addresses their economic and social concerns. With renewed Corporation support, the Center for Rural Strategies will engage in an initiative to educate rural Americans on immigration policy and the importance of voting through media content development, and effective dissemination and audience development.
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For a public education campaign on the economic and social impact of immigration in rural counties
Date
Sep. 08, 2016
Duration
19 months
Description
The growth of immigrant populations in rural communities has been credited with creating new business opportunities, rejuvenating business districts, stabilizing property values, and keeping schools from closing due to lack of enrollment. But these news stories about immigration in rural areas are rarely told. While some national media have examined the topic, many rural Americans haven’t heard this perspective in a way that makes sense to them. With Corporation support, the Center for Rural Strategies rural immigration initiative will reach an audience of at least 500,000 with factual and timely information about the economic and social impact of immigration in rural communities. The initiative will include data-driven qualitative research; print, web, and multimedia story development; promotion of material to rural leaders, press, and policymakers; and distribution of localized, targeted news stories to rural media across the country.
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For a public education campaign on the economic and social impact of immigration in rural counties
Date
Jun. 12, 2014
Duration
12 months
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For a nonpartisan polling project focused on rural voters' attitudes toward immigration and other national issues
Date
Jun. 14, 2012
Duration
12 months