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Supporting Disadvantaged Rural Communities

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Resilience

Resilience describes the capacity of communities to function, so that the people living and working in a community– particularly the poor and vulnerable – survive and thrive no matter what stresses or shocks they encounter.

Resilience (planning) to date has focused on urban cities, metropolitan communities, and not on America’s rural communities. Most research and case studies of resilience (planning) have focused on specific resilience (for example, ecosystems) and not on general resilience planning, one that looks as the whole community and it parts as the ecosystem.

The following links will take you to Community Resilience Planning pages that were use during the community planning process. The pages are either live, meaning the planning process is presently on-going or completed and is kept here for others to possibly use as an example for their own work.

  • Resilience Weed
  • Resilience Guadalupe
  • CalPoly Presentation, November 2018. (pdf)
  • Western Planner article by Tom Brandeberry
  • Power Point presentation from Cal Poly student on Rural Community Resilience Planning. (pdf)
  • Power Point presentation from on Rural Community Resilience Planning given at the Utah APA conference. (pdf)
  • City of Weed Resilience Plan (pdf)– This is the Resilience Weed final plan. It was It is likely the first example of a rural resilience planning process complete in California, and most likely the United States.

 

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Rural Community Development

Community Development   is a process whereby diverse and representative groups of community members come together to take collective action and generate solutions (plans) for common problems; building livable, sustainable communities in the process.

Rural Community Development   is the above, with an understanding that many rural communities lack the resources and capacity to manage this process without assistance, training, resources, and technical assistance.

Why
Aside from the most important reason (it’s needed), if not for our rural communities who would manage our forests? Who would protect our waterways? Who would put the food on our plates? Who would provide those services travelers expect as they drive the many freeways?

California’s rural communities have, as we all know, very limited resources. The more donations we receive the less community funding we will need. Thank you.

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RCDCC is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization. Our ID is 82-1325014
IRS Non Profit Determination Letter (pdf)

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