What Makes it Rural? - A Resource Tool
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A must-have for any organization looking to articulate rural ‘assets’ and rural ‘needs’ when making its case to decision-makers!
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The What Makes It Rural? resource tool can best be described as a process that provides rural stakeholders with a starting point from which they can effectively capture the complexity of ‘rural’, and which helps them to articulate this complexity to others. What Makes It Rural? encourages stakeholders to actively consider their audience while making their way through this process.
WHO should use this process:
- rural organizations
- organizations with an Ontario-wide mandate
- funders and fundraisers
- government representatives and government relations staff
- rural strategists for business
- rural constituents who are required to describe their ‘rurality’ to decision makers
WHEN to use this process:
- undertaking visioning exercises
- looking for access to capital
- trying to make connections with new groups
- planning for the future
- preparing policy to support programs
- serving clients; or
- deciding investment strategies
What Makes It Rural? will help you consider rural Ontario as a place of diversity and opportunity
What Makes It Rural? will help you describe the broader experience of ‘rural’. Consider rural qualities on a continuum or as reflecting a range of characteristics to share with others the richness of the rural regions of Ontario.
WHY use this process?
- mobilize rural organizations and their members to represent rural interests
- generate consistent application of a ‘checklist’ by decision-makers
- solidify ideas about what makes rural ‘rural’
- build knowledge within rural organizations
- start the rural/urban dialogue
Yes! I’d like to order the What Makes it Rural? resource tool!
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The Ontario Rural Council
Ontario AgriCentre
100 Stone Road West, Suite 109
Guelph, Ontario Canada N1G 5L3
T 519.826.4128, F 519.826.3408
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