What are Strategic Investments?
Strategic Investments are NRFC’s primary grantmaking activities, by means of which it supports promising and compelling collaborative strategies for overcoming rural poverty and bringing about rural community transformation at the regional level.
NRFC has identified selected rural regions, of various sizes, in which to engage in strategic grantmaking and related capacity building activities. Its strategic grantmaking consists of three-year grants in the range of $100,000 - $250,000 per year to regional, multi-faceted and mulit-partnered collaborative rural initiatives working to bring about lasting and comprehensive rural community transformation in rural areas of persistent poverty.
Currently, NRFC has strategic regional investments in five regions and collaborative strategies:
- Alaska Rural Community Health Economic Strategies;
- Appalachia Ohio Regional Investment Coalition;
- Central Valley Partnership for Citizenship;
- New Mexico Rural Livelihoods Initiative; and
- South Carolina Community Economic Development Public Policy Collaborative.
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