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Rural Learning

Hot off the Shelf! – Libraries for Health Evaluation & Replication Toolkit from RAND

August 26, 2025
Through multi-year grant support from the St. David’s Foundation, Libraries for Health has spent 3.5 years piloting a new model for how we can place...
  • #Arts & Humanities
Rural Libraries

Lessoned Learned from Regional Collaboratives

May 29, 2025
Collaborative library partnerships can help build capacity, deliver new community services and even create a shared vision. In this session, we’ll explore what it takes...
  • #Arts & Humanities
  • #Capacity Building
Rural Libraries

Roundtable with Carson Block

August 26, 2024
Our first-ever Rural Library Working Group in April brought together many of the library funders in our membership. One major goal that y’all identified from...
  • #Arts & Humanities
  • #Capacity Building
Rural Learning

Rural Arts & Culture Convening: Funding from Foundations 

June 26, 2024
This conversation with Dr. Kelty Garbee and Evan Wolstencroft, Texas Rural Funders and Katy Sauer, Still Water Foundation features: Strategies to find funding for rural...
  • #Arts & Humanities
  • #Capacity Building
  • #Philanthropy
Rural Libraries

Rural Library Working Group

April 9, 2024
At our February Member Meeting, our membership presented a Rural Library showcase, taking us on a tour of their library grants, partnerships, and strategies across...
  • #Arts & Humanities
  • #Capacity Building
  • #Philanthropy
Member Meeting

February 2024 Member Meeting

February 12, 2024
Our first member meeting of 2024 featured: A robust presentation about the great work members of TX Rural Funders are doing with libraries, ranging from...
  • #Arts & Humanities
  • #Broadband
  • #Capacity Building
Rural Learning

Cultural & Economic Development Resources from Rural Texas: Free Books, Film Digitization & How to Use Hotel Taxes for the Arts 

September 20, 2023
Three organizations share how rural communities can utilize free resources to promote cultural and economic development. Free Books for Rural Students through Books Beginning at...
  • #Arts & Humanities
  • #Capacity Building
  • #Workforce & Economic Development
Member Meeting

February 2023 Member Meeting

February 16, 2023
This Member Meeting featured: Library 101 presentation by Cindy Fisher, Texas State Library and Archives Commission Rural Arts Inventory presentation by Brent Hasty, MindPOP Capacity...
  • #Arts & Humanities
  • #Capacity Building
Broadband Funders

Texas Digital Navigators Program 

April 13, 2022
The Texas Digital Navigators Grant Program will help libraries to develop and implement a unique Digital Navigator program to close the digital divide in their...
  • #Arts & Humanities
  • #Broadband