Rural Economic Development

Faith and Food
Resourceful Communities provides rural churches with training to strengthen skills, small grants to ...

Zion Regional Recreation Management Plan
The Plan will foster coordination and collaboration for recreation-related projects and initiatives ...

Kendall Forest: Supporting Rural Economies and Traditions in New York’s Tug Hill Region
Protecting the abundant and often remote forests and waters of Central New York’s Tug Hill region is...

Community Food Sovereignty
The Community Food Sovereignty initiative focuses on engaging communities in all aspects of the food...

Balancing Nature and Commerce in the Pennsylvania Wilds
The PA Wilds has grown to be one of the largest and most successful rural regional branding efforts ...

West Virginia Elk Habitat
Through this conservation effort, West Virginia joins a multi-state landscape level effort to restor...

Freedom Riders National Monument
To honor the courageous efforts of the Freedom Riders and their important place in history, The Cons...

Food and Farm Initiative
North Carolina’s Coastal Plains and Sandhills regions are home to half of the state’s “food deserts,...

Harbour-8 Park
Through The Conservation Fund’s Parks With Purpose program, we are helping Pogo Park create addition...

Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture
In rural western North Carolina, women farmers are playing an increasingly critical role in building...