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A Wealthier and Healthier Tax Time
Every autumn, RuFES Network members start gearing up their free tax assistance promotional campaigns and programs. Their aim? Help low-income rural families file their taxes and obtain the Earned...
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Integrating Affordable Health Insurance Enrollment into Tax Prep Programs
A virtual peer learning series for rural practitioners - The RuFES Action Network recognizes that there are some opportunities where a little help from your friends can make a big difference....
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Sizing Up Rural … For Sizing Down
Over the past 10 years, the national obesity rate has increased – from less than 15 percent in 1990 to over 30 percent in 2010. So has the dialogue about what to do about it. While a groundswell of...
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Employer-Sponsored Child Care
The Basic Idea: Reduce the cost of child care by encouraging businesses to support child care for their workers – or the broader community. How it works: Businesses provide supports such as: Tax-free...
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Payroll Savings Plans
The Basic Idea: Encourage families to have savings taken out of their paychecks – making saving easier and reducing the temptation to spend earnings right away. How it works: A business agrees to set...
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Rural Counts: 6.1 Million Kids in Poverty
“How are we doing?” In rural America, this simple phrase is often a greeting wrapped up in a question. Achieving widespread family economic success requires that we regularly ask that same question to...
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Workplace English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) / Occupational English
The Basic Idea: Teach English to workers or potential workers who don’t speak English as their first language — tailored to a specific workplace’s tasks and needs. How it works: Inventory the...
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Town Welcome Center
The Basic Idea: Help your community grow and thrive by creating a space and/or resource to connect new residents with culturally competent services, resources and opportunities. How it works: Establish...
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Remittances
The Basic Idea: Provide an affordable alternative to high cost money transfer operators (MTOs) for immigrants living in the U.S. to remit much needed funds to their family and friends abroad. How it...
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A Welcoming Community Grows in Rural Minnesota
In 2011, the hiring manager at Quality Pork Processors contacted Jake Vela, executive director of Austin, Minnesota’s Welcome Center, to let him know that 300 new immigrant workers would soon begin...
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Public-Private Partnerships
The Basic Idea: Bring business and public (government) or nonprofit resources together to develop and offer workforce training that meets a business’s specific needs and provides workers with good...
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Recruiting College-Level Classes to Rural Places
The Basic Idea: Make college-level courses available in rural areas that lack a local community college, so people can access the education and skills they need to find and land higher-paid jobs. How...
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Internet Access Campaign
The Basic Idea: Help low-income people get Internet access to increase their ability to access information and services. How it works: Implement one or more strategies including: Provide low-cost, new...
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A Rural Pipeline Everyone Can Support
Three hours north of Maine’s largest city, Franklin County leaders envisioned a thriving community in which working families could attain higher education levels that improved their family’s economic...
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Build a Rural Community Endowment Fund
The Basic Idea: Build a permanent pool of locally-controlled philanthropic resources to help rural communities and families by soliciting charitable contributions in the community and beyond. How it...
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A Solid Foundation for Rural Communities
Helping families get ahead takes investment. And not just financial investment, but investment of time, energy, relationships and know-how. In rural communities with limited resources, it can be a...
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