Applications for the 2007 Rural People, Rural Policy Cohort are Now Being Accepted.

Rural People, Rural Policy (RPRP) energizes and equips organizations and networks to shape policy that improves the lives of rural people and the vitality of rural communities.

Rural People, Rural Policy, a multi-year national initiative, is based on the premise that rural America has abundant assets and that the brightest potential for rural America emerges when a critical mass of rural people are stronger, more organized policy actors. Rural People, Rural Policy builds and strengthens skilled networks and organizations to advocate and act in the rural policy arena.

# Five rural policy networks, including organizations in:

* Central Appalachia – West Virginia, Appalachian counties of Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Maryland, and Virginia

* Mid South – Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana

* Midwest/Great Plains – Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana

* Southwest – Arizona and New Mexico

* At Large – organizations outside the other regions

Complete info: http://www.wkkf.org/default.aspx?tabid=75&CID=274&NID=61&LanguageID=0