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About Stand Up for Rural America
Stand
Up for Rural America began in 1998. It is
a national coalition initiative, involving 750 Sponsors and a Steering
Committee of 37 members. It is dedicated to helping rural
community developers gain the attention, resources and
policy support their work deserves.
The Campaign
has four goals:
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Securing
funding for the Rural Community Development Initiative (RCDI)
-- the first nonprofit capacity building program for
community developers in the US Department of Agriculture
(USDA).
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Establishing
a Rural Funders Affinity Group in the Council on
Foundations to serve as a focus for increasing rural
philanthropy.
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Stimulating
significant private investment in rural community
development.
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Organizing
an umbrella network of at least 750 rural community
developers to continue educating funders, lenders and
policy makers after Stand Up concludes, and
speaking for these developers' interests over the long
term. Please join the Rural
Community Developers Network.
In addition to
these goals, the Campaign is working with The Congressional
Rural Caucus and others advocating for a new federal rural
development policy, one that recognizes grassroots developers
as key engines for strengthening rural communities across this
country. It has also endorsed passage of a federal home
ownership tax credit for investors available to help low
income buyers in targeted urban areas and all rural areas
eligible for USDA section 502 home loans.
You can join
this campaign and receive a biweekly Network Reporter on
funding, financing and training opportunities as well as
policy issues and other information by becoming a member of
the Rural Community Developers
Network if your organization qualifies or signing on as a
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