Rural Resurrection

Grant Spotlight: AARP Community Challenge Grants

Occasionally on Rural Resurrection, we spotlight a few grants that are available to rural communities throughout the Midwest. Usually, we are talking about a specific project and mention how a… Read more »

Destination Towns: Blackwater, Missouri

Destination Towns is a relatively new series on Rural Resurrection. These towns are unique and boldly different, towns that stick out in a crowd and draw people in rather than… Read more »

Implementation Month: Posts from the Past

When starting an Implementation Month activity in your own community, one month’s worth of posts may not be enough support. It may not be enough information, enough direction, or even… Read more »

Hiring a Planning Consultant

Hiring a planning consultant for your community can be a daunting process. Selecting the wrong consultant can make any planning project quite painful. Not only can the process to get… Read more »

Bookmark Grants.gov

Funding is always tight in rural communities. For many, the only way to make improvements to their community is through the assistance of grants. But there are so many different… Read more »

Effective Strategic Planning

This January Rural Resurrection is celebrating the sixth annual National Implementation Month! So let the festivities begin! Many communities are starting to use strategic planning to help focus their councils,… Read more »

Accepting Ideas for Posts

Is there a subject affecting your rural community that you would like to know more information about? Have you read a post on Rural Resurrection, but would like to know… Read more »

Patient, but Not Content: The Art of Implementing Municipal Projects

At my regular job this past fall, we started construction on the first phase of a major streetscape project. I have been working on this project since 2016, 10 years… Read more »

National Implementation Month 2026

Happy National Implementation Month!! This year’s National Implementation Month is the 6th annual celebration of getting things done! I’m still waiting on that Presidential Declaration. Maybe someday Rural Resurrection will… Read more »