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Rural Placemaking
What is Rural Placemaking?
Placemaking is a collaborative engagement process that helps leaders from rural communities create quality places where people will want to live, work, visit and learn. By bringing together partners from public, private, philanthropic, community, and technology sectors, placemaking is a wrap-around approach to community and economic development that incorporates creativity, infrastructure initiatives, and vibrant public spaces.
What is the Rural America Placemaking Toolkit?
The Rural America Placemaking Toolkit is a dynamic, interactive, media-focused website that provides education, resources, activities, and tools on rural placemaking. This website will link information seekers with technical assistance providers, funders, and how-to guides on implementing placemaking in their own communities.
Placemaking Events and Resources
Quarterly Placemaking Webinars
- February 2024 -USDA and NEA along with Your Town Alabama
- August 2023 - USDA and UKY along with Waymakers Collective
Annual Placemaking Conferences
- May 2023 Placemaking in Small & Rural Communities Conference: Opening Plenary | USDA RD Panel | May 2023 Placemaking in Small & Rural Communities Conference - YouTube
- May 2022 Placemaking in Small & Rural Communities Conference: Placemaking in Small & Rural Communities