Philanthropy – Behind a Push for New Solutions to the Complex Challenges Facing Rural America

Philanthropy has long been criticized for ignoring downscale white rural areas. Since the 2016 election, there’s been new discussion about what funders can do to help regions that have been walloped by globalization and, more recently, a deadly opioid epidemic. Part of the challenge is geographic. Foundations tend to be based in major cities and clustered on the coasts. Many are deeply invested in helping urban areas with their own sets of entrenched problems.

But some funders are paying attention to rural America, as we often report, and not just because of what happened on Election Day 2016.

"Local" is the operative word, since most of those funders are based in or near the areas they serve.

Philip Rojc

https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2018/3/15/whos-behind-this-higher-ed-linked-push-for-rural-engagement