Shop Local As the holiday season approaches, think about investing your dollars back into your local community. Keep your town thriving by contributing to your local economy and supporting your friends and neighbors. Check out this article from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance for more reasons you should shop local this gift-giving season and all year-round.
Mary Ewell shared one of her favorite local yarn shops with us this month: Bloom Woolen Yarns.
What's Working
Tell us what's working in your community to be featured in an upcoming newsletter!
From entrepreneurship to clean energy to the arts, we want to hear what your community is doing right. Help us inspire rural communities across the country by sharing the programs and organizations that make your community great.
Rural Electric Vehicle (EV) Toolkit This toolkit is meant to be a one-stop resource to help rural communities scope, plan, and fund electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. A rural stakeholder—such as an individual property owner, business, town, or planning agency—can use the toolkit to identify key partners for a project, take advantage of relevant planning tools, and identify available funding or financing to help make that project a reality. Visit the site here.
Building the New Forest Future: Ensuring Climate Resilience January 17 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM ET Is your community prepared for the effects of climate change? We’ll examine what communities can do today to ready themselves for environmental changes.Register here.
Survey of Rural Challenges Share your community's challenges with Save Your Town. They provide practical ways to shape the future of rural communities and your answers help them respond to real-world needs. Take the survey.
