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Planting Seeds of Prosperity: How CDFIs can Transform Rural Texas

This new resource from Texas Rural Funders offers an introduction to Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI). It includes an overview of how they care serve as a financial tool, examples of how TX Rural Funders members are collaborating with them and a directory of CDFIs in Texas.

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Texas Rural Funders
  • #Capacity Building
  • #People & Places
  • #Philanthropy
TRF Reports
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Boosting Broadband with E-Rate

E-Rate helps schools and libraries boost their technology investment, and Boosting Broadband with E-Rate explains the program and shares inspiring examples of how E-Rate is used to help children and community members have more access to the latest technology with limited local investment.

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Tx Rural Funders
  • #Broadband
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Rural America at a Glance 2023

The 2023 edition of Rural America at a Glance examines rural population and migration trends, poverty, housing insecurity, unemployment, and clean energy jobs. It finds that rural employment levels and annual growth rates have nearly returned to levels seen prior to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

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USDA
  • #People & Places
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Explore the Health Snapshot for Your Congressional District

This Dashboard provides actionable measures of health and its drivers calculated at the congressional district level, showing users how their district is doing on health outcomes, social and economic factors, and more.

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Congressional District Health Dashboard
  • #Health
TRF Reports
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Finding Funding for Fiber

Access to broadband has transformed our economy and our society. This document from Texas Rural Funders helps demystify funding and clarify the vocabulary of broadband development.

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Texas Rural Funders
  • #Broadband