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Kellogg Foundation Accepting Applications for 2007 Rural People, Rural Policy Cohort

A program of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Rural People, Rural Policy is a multi-year national initiative designed to energize and equip organizations and networks to shape policy that improves the lives of rural people and the vitality of rural communities.

A primary component of the program is the creation of Rural Policy Networks — sets of organizations selected from four specific geographic regions and "at large" from the United States. The five networks engage in a process that develops their individual and collective strategies, skills, and efforts to improve the impact of public and private policy on rural people and rural places.

The foundation encourages any nonprofit organization that seeks to improve policy that affects rural people and rural places to apply to participate in a Rural Policy Network. This includes organizations working in economic development, education, community philanthropy, health, and/or other issues critical to rural vitality. Applying organizations may be anywhere on a spectrum from small to large, focused on one community or more than state, focused on a single issue or a wide range of issues, and/or young and learning to highly experienced.

Four networks are based in specific regions where WKKF has invested considerable resources in recent years: Central Appalachia (West Virginia and the Appalachian counties of Kentucky, Maryland, Ohio, Tennessee, and Virginia); the Mid South (Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi); the Midwest/Great Plains (Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana); and the Southwest (New Mexico and Arizona). In addition, there is one At-Large Network that includes organizations that meet all the criteria for participation and are from outside the four specified geographic regions. Rural People, Rural Policy selects a cohort of up to twenty-five organizations every year, with five organizations joining each of the five Rural Policy Networks.

This year, each selected network member organization will receive a grant of $100,000 from WKKF, spread over five years, to support its participation. The grant amount covers travel and staff time related to participation in the initiative.

Visit the WKKF Web site for more information and to download application information.

Primary Subject: Community Improvement/Development
Geographic Funding Area: National

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