Rural Community Alliance

Education Quality Accessibility

Community Engaged Revitalized

Policy Member-driven State-wide

Community revitalization basics:

Total community participation

Buildson the past

Focuses On the future

What’s involved?

Education

Natural Resources

Community ServicesArts & Heritage

Economic Development

Presentation, Marketing, Networking

Youth & the Community• Young people are the future of any

community. To be successful, a community needs the energy and creativity of its youth. They must be educated about the importance of community, and they must be purposefully included in all activities of the community.

• RCA’s Community Revitalization Process includes special provisions for Youth Development activities that include youth microenterprises and youth philanthropy.

Who decides?

You do!

Community input:

Surveys

Community Forums

Focus Groups

The process

Survey the community

Community assessment

forum

Focus group meetings

Visioning & strategic

planning forum

Write strategic plan

Begin implementing

projects

Rural Community Alliance’s role

Organize Community

Engage participation

Facilitate meetings

Provide training

Help Find Resources

Information Funding sources

Technical assistance

Our partners:Arkansas Rural Education Association Arkansas Game and FishArkansas Economic Development CommissionArkansas Department of Rural ServicesFORGEUSDA Rural ServicesDepartment of Arkansas HeritagePlanning & Development Districts Rural School & Community Trust Community Foundation of the Ozarks and Arkansas

Community Foundation

Expected outcomesLocal

schoolRegional marketing Businesses

Services

Youth opportunity

Recreationsites

Heritage preservationEnvironment

preserved

Infrastructure

Area beautifi-

cation